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Old 25th April 2008, 09:11 AM   #16 (permalink)
WingFlaps
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Default Lancair crash at SnF

On Apr 26, 12:57 am, Stefan <stefan@mus._INVALID_.ch> wrote:
> WingFlaps schrieb:
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> >> In everyday's language, the word velocity stands for the _magnitude_ of
> >> the vector.

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> > 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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