Example of a vector that is not a tensor? - Page 2

romsek · January 4th, 2017, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by photogo01 $View Post$

Each one of these examples is a scalar; if you put them together as (78, 7, 2) it may form a matrix but not a vector.

the set of the 3 of them together (why does everyone ignore parens?) constitutes a vector that is not a tensor.

agentredlum · January 5th, 2017, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by romsek $View Post$

your mother's age is just a component of that vector.

The direction of that vector is the usual it's just that the coordinate system is a bit odd, which was sort of the point.

Ahh , I didn't realise the parentheses were meant to enclose a 3 dimensional object.

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