What is a vector field give its two examples?
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What is a vector field give its two examples?
A vector field is a function that assigns to every point in space a vector. It can be imagined as a collection of arrows, each one attached to a different point in space. For example, the wind (the velocity of air) can be represented by a vector field.
Which of the following is vector field?
Magnetic field is a form of representation of magnetic forces. It helps to visualize the strength and direction of the magnetic field. It is a vector field.
What are vector fields used for?
You can think of a vector field as representing a multivariable function whose input and output spaces each have the same dimension. The length of arrows drawn in a vector field are usually not to scale, but the ratio of the length of one vector to another should be accurate.
What is the vector field of the differential equation?
In mathematics, an integral curve is a parametric curve that represents a specific solution to an ordinary differential equation or system of equations. If the differential equation is represented as a vector field or slope field, then the corresponding integral curves are tangent to the field at each point.
Which of the following is A vector field?
Which of the following is a vector field?
What is vector field and scalar field?
A scalar field is an assignment of a scalar to each point in region in the space. E.g. the temperature at a point on the earth is a scalar field. • A vector field is an assignment of a vector to each point in a region in the space.
What is the difference between vector and tensor?
A tensor is a generalization of a vector (not a matrix, exactly). A vector is a tuple that obeys the correct transformation laws – for example, if you perform a rotation represented by matrix R, the new vector V’ = RV. A tensor is a generalization of this to more dimensions.
Does tensor have direction?
A tensor just extends this definition to one where the value of some property depends on the direction in which you measure it. So where a vector is a magnitude and a particular direction from some point, a tensor gives a magnitude for every direction from that point.
Is a matrix A tensor?
No. A matrix can mean any number of things, a list of numbers, symbols or a name of a movie. But it can never be a tensor. Matrices can only be used as certain representations of tensors, but as such, they obscure all the geometric properties of tensors which are simply multilinear functions on vectors.
How are tensors different from vectors and matrices?
A vector is a matrix with just one row or column (but see below). So there are a bunch of mathematical operations that we can do to any matrix. The basic idea, though, is that a matrix is just a 2-D grid of numbers. A tensor is often thought of as a generalized matrix.
