displace

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Displacement

Displacement may refer to:

Physical sciences

Physics

Displacement (vector), the difference between the final and initial position of a point (for instance, the center of mass of a moving object). The actual path covered to reach the final position is irrelevant. It can simply be defined as the length of the shortest path between the final point and initial point of a body
- Particle displacement, a measurement of distance of the movement of a particle in a medium as it transmits a wave (represented in mathematics by the lower-case Greek letter ξ)
- Displacement field (mechanics), an assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a body that is displaced from one state to another
- Electric displacement field, as appears in Maxwell's equations
Wien's displacement law, a relation concerning the spectral distribution of blackbody radiation
Angular displacement, a change in orientation of a rigid body, the amount of rotation about a fixed axis.