2006-11-16 01:26:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Vector: displacement, velocity, acceleration, jerk (the derivative of acceleration), linear momentum, angular momentum, angular velocity, angular acceleration, force, torque, stress, electric field, magnetic field, magnetic field potential, current density, gravitational field, the vector representation of complex numbers, the area vector, the gradient function of a scalar field, air drag...
Scalar: length, area, volume, mass, density, temperature, time, distance, speed, basically the magnitude of any physical vector, work, power, energy (kinetic energy, potential energy), electric charge, electric field potential, potential difference (voltage), current, resistance, resistivity, luminous intensity, sound intensity, frequency, hardness, bulk modulus, shear modulus, strain, fluid pressure, boiling point...
2006-11-16 02:36:15 · answer #1 · answered by pecier 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What Are Some Vector Quantities
2017-01-17 09:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scalar (magnitude alone)
5 m
100 miles
1024 bytes
300 MBytes
0 degrees Celsius
The temperature is 19 degrees Celsius.
The computer has 2 Gigabytes of RAM
Vector (magnitude and direction)
100 km/h, West
5 blocks, North
The bank is "3 blocks, west" of the subway.
The plane is traveling "500 miles/hour going north"
2006-11-16 01:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by sydney_22_f 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Examples of vector quantity: velocity, accelaration, force, momentum, electrical energy.
Examples of scalar quantity: mass, speed, time
2006-11-16 02:36:30 · answer #4 · answered by Austin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vector: velocity, aceleration, magnetic field, electric field, tension,
scalar: time, mass, speed
Note: the equipment that measure the speed of one car measure a scalar quantity....
2006-11-16 01:29:41 · answer #5 · answered by Juan D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a vector is something with direction (ie: velocity or acceleration); on the other hand, a scalar is just a number (ie: mass, "weight", or speed).
2006-11-16 01:28:57 · answer #6 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋