An iota is traditionally the smallest part imaginable, or even smaller, of whatever you may be thinking or talking about. And that may be anything, money, consideration, thought, courtesy, concentration of alcohol in beer, acceleration of a vehicle. The last is strictly a vector, although people generally think of its magnitude, which is a scalar. In general, if its a vector beihg talked about, the "iota" will be its magnitude, and so a scalar. Derived from the smallest Greek letter.
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length is a scalar quantity buddy . but displacement is vector quantity. Length is a vector quantity If it is associated with direction.. Because having direction make it vector... S0 being vector or scalar depends upon how and where it is used..
Position is a vector quantity.
If a quantity does not have a direction, its a scalar quantity, not a vector quantity.
Vector.
Yes, the magnitude of a vector is a scalar.