Quora User, TAB wagering- I place bets for you. 1  Personally I think steeple chasing and jumping can be viciously cruel, because horses are not supposed to jump over high fences in extremely fast times in competition with each other. 2  Same with A grade horse racing which you see on television and all of us discuss here.
Displacement is an object's change in position, only measuring from its starting position to the final position. Displacement only takes into account your position change from the start to the end, not the exact path you took to get there.
Wave (physics). The general term applied to the description of a disturbance which propagates from one point in a medium to other points without giving the medium as a whole any permanent displacement. Waves are generally described in terms of their amplitude, and how the amplitude varies with both space and time.