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Old April 25th 08, 04:48 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Stefan
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WingFlaps schrieb:

In everyday's language, the word velocity stands for the _magnitude_ of
the vector.


Nope. Not even at high school. The magnitude is "speed".


Maybe where you live. Not where I live.


BS. This is stated in any basic physics text book -even Wiki knows it:

"In physics...The scalar absolute value (magnitude) of velocity is
speed."


What part of "everyday's language" wasn't clear?