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====== Scalar Field Examples ======

===== Prompt =====

** "Write on your whiteboard some other examples of scalar fields in physics" **

===== Context =====

This [[strategy:smallwhiteboard:|SWBQ]] is used following a brief lecture(1 minute) which defines a scalar field in terms of the temperature as having a scalar (number) value at every point in space.

===== Wrap Up =====

Contrast with a vector field, a vector at every point in space.

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