Answer to Question #289806 in Electricity and Magnetism for Chemistry

Question

The air temperature and the velocity of the air have different values at different places in the earth’s atmosphere. Is the air velocity a vector field? Why or why not? Is the air temperature a vector field? Again, why or why not? 

Answer 1

Air temperature is a vector field because it have different magnitude in different points of space. Velocity of sound is a scalar (although canned velocity) because it depends on the temperature at the given point of space.