Is the displacement for the trip the same as the distance traveled? why or why not?

Question

A honeybee leaves the hive and travels 2 km before returning.

Answer 1

lol the displacement is 0 and the bee travels 4 km....and why would the bee travel that far?

Answer 2

Not necessarily. If you look at the overall displacement at the end of the journey, the displacement is zero, because the bee has returned to its starting point. But it has travelled 4 km, 2 away and 2 back.

Answer 3

Displacement: 0

Distance travelled: 2km

Answer 4

The honeybee's displacement from the hive, initially,

is 2km

Displacement is a vector quantity. When the bee returned

to the hive: its displacement=0: "all vectors sum to zero"

Distance is not a vector. If the bee traveled in a straight

line during the trip (up and back). The distance traveled

is 4km, but the displacement is still zero since it

returned to it's starting point.