Current is a scalar quantity or vector

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anonymous · Answer

Current is a scalar quantity but its "vector behavior"

anonymous · Answer

It is vector

anonymous · Answer

Its a scalar quantity

backmind · Answer

Vector kind.
The current flow lines of a steady current flow macroscopically coincide with the lines of the total force on the moving charges. So current have a direction.

anonymous · Answer

current I is scalar.  As you know ' I = V /R '
but, currnet density J is vector.    $$I = \int\limits_{}^{}JdS$$

anonymous · Answer

The current I is the flux of Current Density J, as jinjin said, so is a scalar. The Current Density is instead a vector which carries precicelly the information of the direction the charches are moving. For point particles with charge q adn velocity v $$ \vec J = n q \vec v,$$
where n is the number of particles per unit of volume, i.e., the density of charges.

anonymous · Answer

there are two conditions for a quantity to be a vector:
1) it has to have magnitude and direction 
2) it has to obey the laws of vector addition
Now current satisfies the first but fails the second 
therefore it is a scalar quantity