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Why is a charge considered scalar?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

That simply means that the charge doesn't "point" to any particular direction in space. While you can talk about a force of 100N in the upwards direction, it doesn't make sense to talk about a charge of 0.1C to the left - there simply is a charge, it doesn't point in any direction.

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