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Distance is the measurement in cm/m/miles etc that an object has traveled whatever the form of path it takes.  A car moving 1 mile may have done this in a straight line, curved road or even in a circle and finished where it started.  It will still have moved 1 mile.

Displacement is the distance in a straight line between the start and end points of motion.  Thus the car moving 1 mile in a straight line its displacement will be 1 mile whereas the car going in a circle will have no displacement as it ends where it started.

Uniform meaning the motion is constant with nothing hindering the movement at any point.  A steady rate of change.


Time a measurement that does not measure motion but the process of existence.

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