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A Vectorial Dedekind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

John Cable
John Cable*
Affiliation:
Sir Wilfrid Martineau School, Birmingham
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Extract

To continue the debate (Mansfield and Bruckheimer [1], Broomhead [2]) :

1. Scalar Quantities are things like length, area and mass. Vector Quantities are things like force, velocity and acceleration (in 2 or 3D). But let us not, for the present anyway, call vector quantities “vectors.”

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 52 , Issue 379 , February 1968 , pp. 42 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1968

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