Direction of the electric field vector is the direction of the force experienced by a charged particle in an external electric field.
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for a vector quantity it must have both magnitude and direction and since it has both magnitude and direction it is therefore considered a vector
No,because electric field (force/charge) is a vector quantity, i.e. , it has both magnitude as well as direction.
In mathematics, a field is a set with certain operators (such as addition and multiplication) defined on it and where the members of the set have certain properties. In a vector field, each member of this set has a value AND a direction associated with it. In a scalar field, there is only vaue but no direction.
Because to completely describe it you must know both how strong it is (magnitude) and in what direction it points.
Any vector quantity does. Examples of vector quantities include but are not limited to . . . - Displacement - Velocity - Acceleration - Torque - Force - Electric field - Momentum - Poynting vector