Lancair crash at SnF On Apr 26, 12:57 am, Stefan <stefan@mus._INVALID_.ch> wrote:
> WingFlaps schrieb:
>
> >> In everyday's language, the word velocity stands for the _magnitude_ of
> >> the vector.
>
> > Nope. Not even at high school. The magnitude is "speed".
>
> Maybe where you live. Not where I live.
BS. This is stated in any basic physics text book -even Wiki knows it:
"In physics...The scalar absolute value (magnitude) of velocity is
speed."
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