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I assume you mean the normal vector in the plane of the circle
If you write the circle in the form f(x,y,z) = 0 e.g. x^2 + y^2 - r^2 = 0
then grad(f) gives you the normal vector (outward pointing). In cartesian (x,y,z) coordinates:
grad(f) = (df/dx, df/dy, df/dz)
So in our example:
grad(f) = (2x, 2y, 0)
This is the normal vector and is necessarily in the plane of the circle, even if this method is followed for a circle with some angle to the x-y plane :)
This works for any function of the form f(...) = 0, not just circles...
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Is surface Area a scalar or vector quantity?
This might be more of a math question. This is a peculiar thing about three-dimensional space. Note that in three dimensions, an area such as a plane is a two dimensional subspace. On a sheet of paper you only need two numbers to unambiguously denote a point.Now imagine standing on the sheet of paper, the direction your head points to will always be a way to know how this plane is oriented in space. This is called the "normal" vector to this plane, it is at a right angle to the plane.If you now choos the convention to have the length of this vector ("the norm") equal to the area of this surface, you get a complete description of the two dimensional plane, its orientation in three dimensional space (the vector part) and how big this plane is (the length of this vector).Mathematically, you can express this by the "cross product"c ⃗=a⃗×b⃗whose magnitude is defined as|c|=|a||b|sinθwhich is equal to the area of the parallelogram those to vectors (which really define a plane) span. To steal this picture from wikipedia's article on the cross product:As I said in the beginning this is a very special thing for three dimensions, in higher dimensions, it doesn't work as neatly for various reasons. If you want to learn more about this topic a keyword would be "exterior algebra"Update:As for the physical significance of this concept, prominent examples are vector fields flowing through surfaces. Take a circular wire. This circle can be oriented in various ways in 3D. If you have an external magnetic field, you might know that this can induce an electric current, proportional to the rate of change of the amount flowing through the circle (think of this as how much the arrows perforate the area). If the magnetic field vectors are parallel to the circle (and thus orthogonal to its normal vector) they do not "perforate" the area at all, so the flow through this area is zero. On the other hand, if the field vectors are orthogonal to the plane (i.e. parallel to the normal), the maximally "perforate" this area and the flow is maximal.if you change the orientation of between those two states you can get electrical current.
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