Difference between displacement-time graph and position-time graph

While going through my physics book, I got over a question which ask us to plot a position-time graph for the interval ($$t=0\,\mathrm s$$ to $$t=5\,\mathrm s$$)

From the top of a tower, a ball is dropped to fall freely under gravity and at the same time another ball is thrown up with a velocity of $$50\,\mathrm{m/s}$$.

In the solution of this, they have plotted the displacement of each ball.

But displacement will not be equal to to its position since the position should be the height of the ball at any instant with respect to the ground.

So what do you think, is there any difference between position-time graph and displacement-time graph or not?

They are pretty much the same thing. If they are not, then then one is just a constant offset of the other.

When we talk about the position of an object, we usually express that position in terms of a position vector $$\mathbf r(t)$$. This vector can be expressed based on a coordinate system, for example in Cartesian coordinates $$\mathbf r(t)=x(t)\hat x+y(t)\hat y+z(t)\hat z$$

Note that $$\mathbf r(t)=0$$ at the origin, i.e. when $$x=y=z=0$$. Additionally, you could draw the path this vector traces in time, and it would be seeing the position of the object at various times points. For your case $$x(t)=z(t)=0$$, and so you can easily plot $$y(t)$$ vs. $$t$$.

Displacement $$\Delta\mathbf r(t)$$ is the change in position of an object relative to some initial position $$\mathbf r_0$$. i.e. $$\Delta\mathbf r(t)=\mathbf r(t)-\mathbf r_0$$

Note that displacement is $$0$$ when $$\mathbf r(t)=\mathbf r_0$$. Typically, we just choose $$\mathbf r_0=0$$ so that displacement and position are equal. However, you could instead use the displacement from some other position that is not the origin. Then displacement and position would not be the same thing, but they would just be offset by the constant position vector $$\mathbf r_0$$. Another way to look at this is that you are explicitly stating a shift in your coordinates so that the origin is at $$\mathbf r_0$$ compared to the original coordinate system.

With all of this in mind, physicists usually use position and displacement interchangeably, and they might not be as precise as what is discussed in this answer. However, what is actually meant is typically obvious from the context. I would say it is a distinction that you should not really worry about.

Position, you assign a certain reference point in the Cartesian system, usually we take origin, which is symmetric to all the axis, displacement and position are same only in this case, why let us see

Case 1:) when you drop the ball, let say the ball height is $$h$$, it is moving towards origin, with graph is curved having negative slope.

Now when Case 2:), now displacement time graph would be same as position time graph as we assume the ground as origin which is our reference point so.. $$\Delta\mathbf x(t)=\mathbf x(t)-\mathbf x_0$$, where $$x_0$$, is zero, if it is not zero both the graph will never be the same.