Answer to Question #3634 in Electricity and Magnetism for David

Question #3634
What's the difference between a scalar wave and a vector wave?
I believe an acoustic wave is a scalar wave and an electromagnetic wave is a vector wave.
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Expert's answer
2012-03-16T11:36:45-0400
Vector wave depend on direction of wave and scalar - abs value of this vector.
k=2pi/L, where L- wavelength.

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