The
quantities like: mass, time, volume and energy which can be completely defined
by stating their magnitudes, and which do not have any direction. Such
quantities are called scalar quantities.
On
other hand quantities like: displacement, velocity, acceleration, momentum and
force posses both magnitude as well as direction. To define these quantities we
have to specify their (a) magnitude, (b) direction and (c) point of action.
Such quantities are called vector quantities.
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