What term describes the displacement an object travels when put into projectile motion?

• A. Displacement
• B. Velocity
• C. Acceleration
• D. Range

Answer: (D)

In projectile motion, the term for how far you get horizontally from the launch point to where it lands on level ground is the range. Gravity shapes the curved path, but the horizontal reach—the distance from start to finish along the ground—is called the range. If the launch and landing heights are the same, the displacement from the start to the end is purely horizontal and its magnitude matches the range. Velocity describes how fast and in what direction the object is moving, acceleration is the rate at which that velocity changes due to gravity, and displacement is the straight‑line vector from the starting point to the ending point (which, in this level-ground case, aligns with the range but is a broader, more general concept).