Justify that displacement is a vector quantity while energy is a scalar quantity.

Displacement is a vector because it has both magnitude and direction, indicating the shortest path between two points. Energy, on the other hand, is a scalar as it only has magnitude and no direction. For example, while displacement can be positive or negative depending on the direction, energy remains always positive and doesn’t depend on the direction of movement.

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