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I think I can make up a variant of the problem that doesn't boil down to scalar vs vector. Imagine the driver is still trying to keep a constant speed, but the

I think I can make up a variant of the problem that doesn't boil down to scalar vs vector. Imagine the driver is still trying to keep a constant speed, but the road is now horizontal, and the car gets slowed down by mud instead of hills.

Evbn 14y ago
That's exactly the same. Vector refers to directionality, not number of dimensions.
- pseut 14y ago
  But the only thing varying is a scalar, is the point. The fact that you can write it as a vector is irrelevant.