A Typical example of a scalar is mass because the mass of an object can be completely specified by just one number. On the other hand, weight is a vector and not a scalar. Explain why this is the case

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Weight has both a magnitude (how much it weighs) plus a direction (toward the source of gravity, in most cases the center of the Earth). The difference between all scalers and vectors is that a vector has both a magnitude and direction while a scalar has only the magnitude