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El desplazamiento entre dos instantes, to y t, se corresponde con un vector que se extiende desde
la posición en to hasta la posición en t.
Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to "how much ground an object has covered"
during its motion.
Displacement is a vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is"; it
is the object's overall change in position.
To understand the distinction between distance and displacement, you must know the definitions.
You must also know that a vector quantity such as displacement is direction-aware and a scalar
quantity such as distance is ignorant of direction. When an object changes its direction of motion,
displacement takes this direction change into account; heading the opposite direction effectively
begins to cancel whatever displacement there once was.