what is tensor??is earth magnetic field tensor or vector quantity?
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Answer:
A tensor is a quantity, for example a stress or a strain, which has magnitude, direction, and a plane in which it acts. Stress and strain are both tensor quantities. In real engineering components, stress and strain are 3-D tensors.
Explanation:
Tensors are simply mathematical objects that can be used to describe physical properties, just like scalars and vectors. In fact tensors are merely a generalisation of scalars and vectors; a scalar is a zero rank tensor, and a vector is a first rank
The magnetic field at any point in space is a vector quantity. This means there is a direction associated with the field as well as a field strength. Consider the arrow below: The direction of the arrow can be thought of as the direction of the magnetic field