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Is Motion a scalar or vector or neither?
Is Motion Scalar or Vector in Nature?
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Motion is not something even quantifiable. You can say a system has a higher velocity, or more momentum or more kinetic energy, but not more motion.
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excuse me, what do you mean by quantifiable?
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One definition of motion I have seen is a time-dependent map from phase space to phase space. Which is quite a bit more complex than scalar vs vector.
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