{"id":3140,"date":"2022-05-08T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T06:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2022-05-08T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T06:06:23","slug":"difference-between-scalar-and-vector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/difference-between-scalar-and-vector\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between Scalar and Vector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/difference-between-scalar-and-vector.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3141\" title=\"Difference Between Scalar and Vector\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually, both these terms sound the same, but there is a difference between scalar and vector quantities. Both these quantities are used to represent the motion of an object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Difference Between Scalar and Vector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A scalar quantity is different from a vector quantity in terms of direction. Scalars don\u2019t have direction whereas vector has. Due to this feature, the scalar quantity can be said to be represented in one dimensional whereas a vector quantity can be multi-dimensional. From the table given below, let us learn more differences between\u00a0scalars and vectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><th><strong>Difference Between Scalar and Vector<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Scalar<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Vector<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>It has only the magnitude<\/td><td>It has direction and magnitude<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Only one dimensional<\/td><td>It is multidimensional<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>This quantity changes with the change in magnitude<\/td><td>This changes with magnitude and direction<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Normal rules of algebra are applicable here<\/td><td>There is a different set of rules known as vector algebra<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>One scalar quantity can divide another scalar<\/td><td>One vector cannot divide another vector<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>In the example of speed, time, etc, the distance between the points is a scalar quantity, not the direction<\/td><td>Velocity could be an example because it is a measurement of the rate of change of an object\u2019s position<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, both these terms sound the same, but there is a difference between scalar and vector quantities. Both these quantities are used to represent the motion of an object. Difference Between Scalar and Vector A scalar quantity is different from a vector quantity in terms of direction. Scalars don\u2019t have direction whereas vector has. Due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[669],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}