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Old 13-May-2008, 06:33 PM
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Vector: both magnitude (340 mph) and direction (240 deg, horizontal)

Tensor: varying (linear, geometric, ln, or other various functions) throughout a 3 dimentional space. One example would be the varying bending moment along a beam with a load equally distributed along the length of the beam when said beam is anchored on one end only. The moment = 0 at the free end and is at a maximum at the anchored end. The moment varies linearly along the beam in this simplest of cases.
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