What is the difference between absolute and relative distance?

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Absolute distance is the cold and hard distance from one point to another. Relative distance is the distance that you are 'felt' to cover, taking the time used to get there.

For example: if you're travelling from one place to another place lets say 1000 km away. The absolute distance will be 1000 km of course, but the relative distance can be shortened, like say using aeroplanes: the relative distance shrinks because now the time taken for you to travel over the same distance has been reduced.

This leads to a so-called 'Global Village', because, even though the absolute distance between place is often great, the relative distance has actually been largely reduced.(of course, Info-Com Tech has also helped to make the world a global village, but you should not confuse this with absolute and relative distance)

Answer 2

Relative Distance Definition

Answer 3

Absolute Distance

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Your formula is not right. M = m - 5(log(d) - 1), as long as d is small relative to the size of the universe. Distance expressed in pasecs means of d = 10 parsecs, log(d) = 1 and the formula simplifies to M = m, which is the definition of absolute magnitude: apparent magnitude at 10 parsecs. This means that for a star at 1 parsec, M = m - 5(log(1) - 1) = m+5. The star's apparent magnitude is 5 greater than its absolute magnitude. Explanation of the formula: The (log(d) - 1) part puts the magnitude on a log scale, with the zero at 10 parsecs. The multiplier by 5 means for every 10x distance (which reduces luminosity by a factor of 100), M increases by 5 for a given m. In other words, if the apparent magnitude of two stars is equal, but one is 10 times as far away, its absolute magnitude will be 5 greater than the other. This fits with the standard astronomical definition of magnitude as 5 magnitudes = 100x luminosity.

Answer 6

Your question is not clear. I know of differences between absolute velocity and relative velocity but have not heard of differences between absolute and relative distances. All distances are relative when measured from a reference point (with respect to that point).

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Transforms those linear measurements into other units that could be more meaningful for the spatial relationship in question and that s relative distance
The physical separation between two points on the earth’s surface measured by some accepted standard unit such as kilometers for widely separated locales, meters for more closely spaced points and that s absolute distance from my side

Answer 8

Since it is one tenth the distance for absolute magnitude, its absolute magnitude will be 100 times fainter, or 5 mags. No need for all those formulas and algebra

Answer 9

"absolute" means a precise or exact distance. "Relative" would mean compared to or close to similar distance. For example: 5280 feet is an "absolute" distance of 1 mile.