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Lesson: Chapter 2 — Motion in a Straight Line

2.1. Distance and displacement 5 of 8

Question 5

Which of the following groups contains vector quantities only?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Displacement, velocity, acceleration. Stating any of these three in full needs a direction as well as a magnitude, which is exactly what makes a quantity a vector.

Distance, speed, mass and time are scalar quantities — they have a magnitude only. "160 m east" is a displacement; plain "160 m" is a distance. Weight is a vector too, because it is a force and so has a direction.

Answer the question to continue.