causes a vehicle to travel radians. Displacement and directed distance The displacement in classical physics measures the change in position of an object during an interval of time. While distance is a scalar quantity, or a magnitude, displacement is a vector quantity with both magnitude and direction. In general, the vector measuring the difference between two locations (the relative position) is sometimes called the directed distance. For example, the directed distance from the New York City Main Library flag pole to the Statue of Liberty flag pole has: A starting point: library flag pole An ending point: statue flag pole A direction: -38° A distance: 8.72 km Signed distance See also Absolute difference Astronomical system of units Color difference Closeness (mathematics) Distance geometry problem Dijkstra's algorithm Distance matrix Distance set Engineering tolerance Multiplicative distance Optical path length Orders of magnitude (length) Proper length Proxemics – physical distance between people Signed distance function Similarity measure Social distancing Vertical distance Library support Python (programming language) Interspace -A package for finding the distance between two vectors, numbers and strings. SciPy -Distance computations (scipy.spatial.distance) Julia (programming language) Julia Statistics Distance -A Julia package for evaluating distances (metrics) between vectors. References Bibliography