{"id":7184,"date":"2024-12-27T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T21:05:34","slug":"key-differences-between-scalars-and-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/key-differences-between-scalars-and-vectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Differences Between Scalars and Vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Property<\/th><th>Scalars<\/th><th>Vectors<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Magnitude<\/strong><\/td><td>Only magnitude (size)<\/td><td>Both magnitude and direction<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Direction<\/strong><\/td><td>No direction<\/td><td>Has a direction<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Example<\/strong><\/td><td>Mass, speed, temperature, time<\/td><td>Displacement, velocity, force<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Addition<\/strong><\/td><td>Simple arithmetic addition<\/td><td>Vector addition (head-to-tail or components)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Multiplication<\/strong><\/td><td>Normal multiplication<\/td><td>Can involve dot product or cross product<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property Scalars Vectors Magnitude Only magnitude (size) Both magnitude and direction Direction No direction Has a direction Example Mass, speed, temperature, time Displacement, velocity, force Addition Simple arithmetic addition Vector addition (head-to-tail or components) Multiplication Normal multiplication Can involve dot product or cross product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scalars-and-vectors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/vector.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}