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Old 25th April 2008, 04:00 PM   #23 (permalink)
WingFlaps
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Default Lancair crash at SnF

On Apr 26, 3:48 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."

>
> What part of "everyday's language" wasn't clear?


I can see you have trouble with English too.

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