?What is a vector field? Give three examples that have physical meaning

Chapter 16, Problem 1

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What is a vector field? Give three examples that have physical meaning.

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QUESTION:

What is a vector field? Give three examples that have physical meaning.

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Given is the figure for the vector field, curve and the point.

The figure shows that the vector starts at the point C and is moving in the opposite direction of C. This suggest that the tangent component of the field  is negative.

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