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.
1. Linear displacement is movement in one direction along a single axis. A position or linear displacement sensor is a device whose output signal represents the distance an object has traveled from a reference point. A displacement measurement also indicates the direction of motion (See Figure 1). Figure 1. Linear Displacement Measurement. A linear displacement typically has units of millimeters (mm) or inches (in.) and a negative or positive direction associated with it. Back to Top.