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Originally Posted by ravaila View Post
as we all knows that current has both magnitude and direction but we consider it a scalar quantity ?
y is it so?

according to my knowledge as it does'nt obey vector addition etc thats y we call it scalar quantity.if m wrong do correct me. waiting 4 respond!
@ravila
according to my little knowledge current is scalar because of two reasons.
as current is I = q/t , q and t both are scalar so current is scala.
2 is that current do not follow vector rule for addition so it is scalar. it example is from kirchofs current rule. hope it is correct
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