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Because vectors have direction as well as magnitude, you must take the direction into account when you add them.
Example:
Vector A parallel to [0,0; 0,4]
Vector B parallel to [0,0; 3,0]
These vectors are at right angles to each other Vector A has a magnitude of 4, Vector B an magnitude of 3.
A + B = has a magnitude of 5, parallel to [0,0;3,4]
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Is a scalar a component of a vector?
Answer: A vector is always the product of 2 scalars
How are scalar and vector different?
Vectors have direction. Scalars don't.
Why can't we add or subtract vectors like scalars?
Because scalars do not take in the direction but just the magnitude while vectors can. You can add vectors ONLY if they are in the same direction.
Is heat a scalar or vector?
Heat is energy. It and temperature are both scalars.
Is it possible to add a scalar to a vector?
It is not possible the addition of scalars as well as vectors because vector quantities are magnitude as well as direction and scalar quantities are the only magnitude; they have no directions at all. Addition is possible between scalar to scalar and vector to vector. Under some circumstances, you may be able to treat scalar quantities as being along some previously undefined dimension of a vector quantity, and add them that way. For example, you can treat time as a vector along the t-axis and add it to an xyz position vector in 3-space to come up with a four-dimensional spacetime vector.
