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    In special relativity, a four-vector (or 4-vector, sometimes Lorentz vector) is an object with four components, which transform in a specific way under...
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  • spacetime. Momentum is a vector in three dimensions; similarly four-momentum is a four-vector in spacetime. The contravariant four-momentum of a particle...
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  • particular in special relativity and general relativity, a four-velocity is a four-vector in four-dimensional spacetime that represents the relativistic counterpart...
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    charge per unit time per unit area. Also known as vector current, it is used in the geometric context of four-dimensional spacetime, rather than separating...
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  • operations on the above sorts of vectors. A vector space formed by geometric vectors is called a Euclidean vector space, and a vector space formed by tuples is...
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    An electromagnetic four-potential is a relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric...
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  • a wave four-vector can be defined, combining the (angular) wave vector and (angular) frequency. The terms wave vector and angular wave vector have distinct...
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    physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude...
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  • the natural sciences, a vector quantity (also known as a vector physical quantity, physical vector, or simply vector) is a vector-valued physical quantity...
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    transformation matrix is universal for all four-vectors, not just 4-dimensional spacetime coordinates. If A is any four-vector, then in tensor index notation A...
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    In classical electromagnetism, magnetic vector potential (often called A) is the vector quantity defined so that its curl is equal to the magnetic field:...
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    spacetime represented as a four-vector (t, x, y, z). A Lorentz transformation is represented by a matrix that acts on the four-vector, changing its components...
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    electromagnetic four-potential is a covariant four-vector containing the electric potential (also called the scalar potential) ϕ and magnetic vector potential...
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  • For instance, many times the time-based terms are placed first in the four-vectors, with the spatial terms following. Also, sometimes η is replaced with...
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  • four-acceleration is a four-vector (vector in four-dimensional spacetime) that is analogous to classical acceleration (a three-dimensional vector, see...
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  • In differential geometry, the four-gradient (or 4-gradient) ∂ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\partial }}} is the four-vector analogue of the gradient ∇ →...
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    quantity to a spacelike vector quantity, and we have 4d vectors, or "four-vectors", in Minkowski spacetime. The components of vectors are written using tensor...
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    In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents a point P in space....
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  • In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed...
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  • In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase...
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  • The four-frequency of a massless particle, such as a photon, is a four-vector defined by N a = ( ν , ν n ^ ) {\displaystyle N^{a}=\left(\nu ,\nu {\hat...
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  • of relativity, four-force is a four-vector that replaces the classical force. The four-force is defined as the rate of change in the four-momentum of a...
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    potential and the magnetic vector potential. The electric potential and the magnetic vector potential together form a four-vector, so that the two kinds of...
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    Gradient (redirect from Gradient vector)
    In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function f {\displaystyle f} of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued...
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    Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as...
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    Momentum (redirect from Momentum vector)
    object. It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a direction. If m is an object's mass and v is its velocity (also a vector quantity), then...
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    The Vector W8 is a sports car produced by American automobile manufacturer Vector Aeromotive Corporation from 1989 to 1993. It was designed by company...
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  • In mathematics, vector multiplication may refer to one of several operations between two (or more) vectors. It may concern any of the following articles:...
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  • perpendicular to the light's wavefronts (and is therefore collinear with the wave vector). A slightly more rigorous definition of a light ray follows from Fermat's...
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    The VECTOR (Versatile Expeditionary Commando Tactial Off Road) is a Dutch light all-terrain tactical vehicle, designed and developed by defence contractor...
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