47.9k views
0 votes
Can be a vector scalar ?​

User Trewq
by
5.6k points

2 Answers

5 votes

Answer:

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

So vector could not be considered to be scalar too.

But turning a vector to a scalar is possible. Only remove the direction of movement.

User Zalun
by
4.9k points
3 votes

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.

User Musma
by
4.7k points