Any element of a vector space
it acually simpler than that vector is something with a value of a direction
A vector is a physical quantity which has not only magnitude, but also a direction.
For example: Weight is a vector quantity. Its magnitude is how much a certain body (maybe yours?) weighs due to the pull of Earth's gravity. Its direction is toward Earth's center of mass.
Mass is not a vector. It is a scalar quantity. Your mass has no inherent direction. Your weight does once the Earth acts on it.
Here is another example: If you are driving fast from Georgia to Florida, your speed might be 80 mph (scalar, magnitude only.) If, for the benefit of your physics professor, you added the direction to your speed, you would have velocity. 80 mph SOUTH. Velocity is one example of a vector.
Definition of a vector. A vector is an object that has each a magnitude and a direction. Geometrically, we can photograph a vector as a directed line segment, whose size is the magnitude of the vector and with an arrow indicating the direction. The course of the vector is from its tail to its head
It is a quantity that cannot be adequately described as a scalar... it has not only a magnitude, but a direction as well.
Force Displacement
You might define vector by stating that a vector is a quantity with a direction and a magnitute. The vector helps to determine a position in space and is used in mathematics.
In Physics a vector is a number with a direction.
a quantity with magnitude and a direction.
Speed is scalar (that is, without direction) and velocity is a vector (speed plus direction) by definition in physics.
That's a vector whose direction is exactly opposite to the direction that you designated as the positive one when the exercise or analysis began.
I had this question in my physics class as well and the answer is vector :)
vector is important because it shows direction as well as magnitude
In physics, "vector" usually means that a direction is relevant. If you just have a number, as in "number of moles", then a direction is NOT relevant.
a vector having unit magnitude and have a certain direction.
A position vector tells us the position of an object with reference to the origin
resultant vector a vector in which 1 side shiner and another side is polish is called resultant vector
T. N. Lockyer has written: 'Vector particle physics' -- subject(s): Mathematical models, Particles (Nuclear physics), Vector analysis
I think so, yes; that's basically what the concept of a "vector" in physics is all about. (There are also more abstract vectors in math and physics, but something that has a magnitude and a direction would be enough to quality as a vector.)
When drawing a vector using the triangle method you will draw in the resultant vector using Pythagorean theorem. This is taught in physics.
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That's a vector whose direction is exactly opposite to the direction that you designated as the positive one when the exercise or analysis began.
Speed is scalar (that is, without direction) and velocity is a vector (speed plus direction) by definition in physics.
As used in physics, the two are different. Speed is a scalar, velocity a vector.
I had this question in my physics class as well and the answer is vector :)
vector is important because it shows direction as well as magnitude