In mathematics and physics, vector is a term that refers to quantities that cannot be expressed by a single number (a scalar), or to elements of some...
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In mathematics, physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric...
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Pseudovector (redirect from Polar and axial vectors)
In physics and mathematics, a pseudovector (or axial vector) is a quantity that transforms like a vector under continuous rigid transformations such as...
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In physics, the Poynting vector (or Umov–Poynting vector) represents the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area, per unit time) or...
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Matrix (mathematics) Row and column vectors Tensor Vector (mathematics and physics) Vector calculus Lay, David C. (2006). Linear Algebra and Its Applications...
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Vector notation In mathematics and physics, vector notation is a commonly used notation for representing vectors, which may be Euclidean vectors, or more...
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(mathematics and physics) Row and column vectors, single row or column matrices Vector quantity Vector space Vector field, a vector for each point Vector (molecular...
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In mathematics and physics, a vector space (also called a linear space) is a set whose elements, often called vectors, can be added together and multiplied...
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In physics and engineering, particularly in mechanics, a physical vector may be endowed with additional structure compared to a geometrical vector. A...
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Right-hand rule (category Vectors (mathematics and physics))
In mathematics and physics, the right-hand rule is a convention and a mnemonic, utilized to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space and...
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both covariance and contravariance. In physics, a vector typically arises as the outcome of a measurement or series of measurements, and is represented...
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In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase...
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Vector calculus or vector analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the differentiation and integration of vector fields, primarily in three-dimensional...
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In mathematics, the dimension of a vector space V is the cardinality (i.e., the number of vectors) of a basis of V over its base field. It is sometimes...
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A vector-valued function, also referred to as a vector function, is a mathematical function of one or more variables whose range is a set of multidimensional...
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classical mechanics, the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (LRL vector) is a vector used chiefly to describe the shape and orientation of the orbit of one astronomical...
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In special relativity, a four-vector (or 4-vector, sometimes Lorentz vector) is an object with four components, which transform in a specific way under...
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Equipollence (geometry) (category Vectors (mathematics and physics))
Principles of Mathematics, page 432 The concept of equipollent line segments was advanced by Giusto Bellavitis in 1835. Subsequently, the term vector was adopted...
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constants and variables, and their notations. Note that bold text indicates that the quantity is a vector. List of letters used in mathematics and science...
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In mathematics, and especially differential geometry and mathematical physics, gauge theory is the general study of connections on vector bundles, principal...
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Mathematical physics is the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines the...
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row and column vectors.) The transpose (indicated by T) of any row vector is a column vector, and the transpose of any column vector is a row vector: [...
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In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space V {\displaystyle V\,} is a complex vector space V ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {V}}} that...
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number and zero. In vector spaces, the Euclidean norm is a measure of magnitude used to define a distance between two points in space. In physics, magnitude...
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Helmholtz decomposition (redirect from Longitudinal and transverse vector fields)
physics and mathematics, the Helmholtz decomposition theorem or the fundamental theorem of vector calculus states that certain differentiable vector fields...
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geometry, especially the theory of space curves, the Darboux vector is the angular velocity vector of the Frenet frame of a space curve. It is named after...
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algebra, a coordinate vector is a representation of a vector as an ordered list of numbers (a tuple) that describes the vector in terms of a particular...
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In mathematics, a tangent vector is a vector that is tangent to a curve or surface at a given point. Tangent vectors are described in the differential...
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In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named...
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the mathematical field for the vector space in which the electric field is described. As the vector space in this example and usual cases in physics is...
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