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When a scalar quantity(if it has positive magnitude) is multiplies by a vector quantity the product is another vector quantity with the magnitude as the product of two vectors and the direction and dimensions same as the multiplied vector quantity

e.g. MOMENTUM

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Multiplying or dividing vectors by scalars no more difficult than multiplying/dividing scalars by scalars. In order to do it, one simply divides the magnitude of the vector by the scalar, and doesn't change the direction of the vector. For example:

A vector: 60m/s [West]

Dividing that by 20 gives you 3m/s [West]

An example of division:

A vector: 34m [up]

Multiplying that by 5 gives you 170m [up]

An exception to this is when multiplying or dividing by a negative scalar, in which case the direction is reversed after the operation. For example:

A vector: 3N [45 degrees down from the horizontal, West]

Multiplying that by -10 gives you -30N [45 degrees down from the horizontal, West]

Or, in a more useful from: 30N [45 degrees up from the horizontal, East]

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A scalar times a vector yields another vector.

The new vector has the same direction as the original vector and the new magnitude is equal to the product of the old magnitude and the scalar.

(Of course, if the scalar is a negative quantity, we understand that the new vector then points in the opposite direction as the original and the new magnitude is the absolute value of the product of the scalar and the old magnitude.)

In mathematics, the product of a scalar and vector is part of the definition of a vector space.

In physics, vectors satisfy the mathematical rules of a vector space.

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A Vector. A scalar times a vector is a vector.

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