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Scalar Field Examples

Prompt

“Write on your whiteboard some other examples of scalar fields in physics”

Context

This 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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