Can be a vector scalar ?

Physics

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xz_007 [3.2K]3 years ago

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Answer:

No, scalar and vector quantities are two different categories of a quantity.

So vector could not be considered to be scalar too.

<em>But turning a vector to a scalar is possible</em>. Only remove the direction of movement.

dimaraw [331]3 years ago

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A scalar has only its magnitude, whereas a vector has a magnitude, a line where it lies, and a direction it points along that line.

The only way to associate vectors and scalars is to think of vector as of arrays of numbers. For example, this $(2, 3, 5)$ is a vector in $\mathbb{R}^3$ .

Under this logic, scalars are just vectors with dimension 1.

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