What is the difference between magnetic vector potential and magnetic scalar potential?

Answer 1

A vector is a quantity with both magnitude (strength) and direction. Like a force having a strength in pounds and a direction. Or a wind having magnitude (in mph) and direction (Northeast). A scalar has only magnitude. Like the length of a segment or amount of peanuts in a jar. Scalars are just numbers.

Answer 2

The only difference is direction or directivity. A scalar quantity of anything has a magnitude or "amount" associated with it, and a vector quantity has that same magnitude or "amount" associated plus a direction or directivity.

Answer 3

A quantity is a vector if its direction makes a difference, like force and speed.

A quantity is a scalar if its direction doesn't make any difference, like temperature and price.

Answer2: The difference between a vector and a scalar is the angle.

Numbers in Physics are scalars and vectors. Both scalars and vectors are parts of a quaternion. Quaternions consist of a scalar and a three vectors, Q = w + Ix + Jy + Kz = |Q|(cos(Q) + v Sin(Q)) . Real and complex numbers are subsets of quaternions. The difference between a vector and a scalar is the angle of Q. If he angle is a even multiple of 90 degrees, the quaternion is a scalar; positive scalars are multiples of 4 and negative scalars are multiples of 2. If the angle is an odd multiple of 90 degrees, the quaternion is a vector.

If the angle is not a multiple of 90 degrees, the number is both a scalar and a vector. It is likely that most quantities in physics are quaternions with both scalar and vector parts.

Answer 4

The scalar and vector potentials are part of a Quaternion potential, Ms +Mv. Ms is a scalar and Mv is a vector (3D). The vector is the axis of the Potential and Ms denotes the Angle of rotation around the axis. If the angle is 90 degrees Ms =0 and the Quaternion is a Fermion. If the axis is zero, the Quaternion is a Boson. The angle of the Potential is ArcTan Mv/Ms.

Physics vectors and scalars are in fact, Quaternions!

Answer 5

The magnetic vector potential is a vector quantity that describes the magnetic field and its associated vector field. The magnetic scalar potential, on the other hand, is a scalar quantity that helps describe the magnetic field in terms of a scalar field. In simpler terms, the magnetic vector potential describes both the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field, while the magnetic scalar potential only gives the magnitude of the magnetic field.

Answer 6

It is scalar.

Answer 7

Scalar

Answer 8

a good example of vector quantity is force

Answer 9

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