Question

what is the difference between scalar quantity and vector quantity​

Answer 1

Answer:

Scalars are quantities that are fully described by a magnitude (or numerical value) alone. Vectors are quantities that are fully described by both a magnitude and a direction.

Answer 2

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Scalar quantity is defined as the physical quantity with magnitude and no direction.

Some physical quantities can be described just by their numerical value (with their respective units) without directions (they don’t have any direction). The addition of these physical quantities follows the simple rules of the algebra. Here, only their magnitudes are added.

Examples of Scalar Quantities

There are plenty of scalar quantity examples, some of the common examples are:

Mass

Speed

Distance

Time

Area

Volume

Density

Temperature

A vector quantity is defined as the physical quantity that has both direction as well as magnitude.

A vector with the value of magnitude equal to one and direction is called unit vector represented by a lowercase alphabet with a “hat” circumflex. That is “û“.

Examples of Vector Quantities

Vector quantity examples are many, some of them are given below:

Linear momentum

Acceleration

Displacement

Momentum

Angular velocity

Force

Electric field

Polarization