Vectors are physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, such as displacement, velocity, force, and magnetic fields. Scalars only have magnitude and include properties like length, mass, energy, and temperature. When adding vectors, both magnitude and direction must be considered, while scalars can be simply added numerically. A vector's direction refers to either the movement of the quantity or the movement it could produce.
Vectors are physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, such as displacement, velocity, force, and magnetic fields. Scalars only have magnitude and include properties like length, mass, energy, and temperature. When adding vectors, both magnitude and direction must be considered, while scalars can be simply added numerically. A vector's direction refers to either the movement of the quantity or the movement it could produce.
Vectors are physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, such as displacement, velocity, force, and magnetic fields. Scalars only have magnitude and include properties like length, mass, energy, and temperature. When adding vectors, both magnitude and direction must be considered, while scalars can be simply added numerically. A vector's direction refers to either the movement of the quantity or the movement it could produce.
Vectors are physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, such as displacement, velocity, force, and magnetic fields. Scalars only have magnitude and include properties like length, mass, energy, and temperature. When adding vectors, both magnitude and direction must be considered, while scalars can be simply added numerically. A vector's direction refers to either the movement of the quantity or the movement it could produce.
Question: I want to know about different types of vectors and scalars.
When they say vector has a direction does it mean a physical quantity that moves like, work done, magnetic field, current etc.?
Scalars and vectors
The quantities measured in Physics may be divided into two groups: (a) scalars - these are quantities that have magnitude (size) only. Examples of scalars are length, speed, mass, density, energy, power, temperature, charge, potential difference (b) vectors - these are quantities that have direction as well as magnitude. Examples of vectors are displacement, force, torque, velocity, acceleration, momentum, electric current, magnetic flux density, electric field Scalars may be added together by simple arithmetic but when two or more vectors are added together their direction must be taken into account as well. A vector may be represented by a line, the length of the line being the magnitude of the vector and the direction of the line the direction of the vector. When 'they' say that a vector has a direction it means that either it is moving in a certain direction (as in a velocity) or that it could produce movement in a certain direction (as in a force or a magnetic field).