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Excellent intro by PatrickD. I tried to improve it further.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 22:57, 31 October 2009 (EDT) | Excellent intro by PatrickD. I tried to improve it further.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 22:57, 31 October 2009 (EDT) | ||
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| + | :I realize that reverting the site owner is not to be taken lightly. I moved your stuff down lower, because the term "scalar" hadn't been defined yet. Also, I didn't agree with your notion that the derivative of the temperature is a vector. Then I realized that you are referring to the gradient. However, I think that discussion of the gradient is premature this early in the introduction to vectors. We need a better connection to gradients (and vector dot products and cross products, of course) later in the article. I don't know just how this should be done. But at this early point in the article, I think that what I wrote is close to the right thing. | ||
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| + | :You should take my recent change in the spirit of "How about this as proposed improvement?", not as "I reverted you." It just seemed that editing my proposed changes into the article was simpler than making sandbox articles or extensive discussion here on the talk page. Please feel free to improve!!! [[User:PatrickD|PatrickD]] 23:27, 31 October 2009 (EDT) | ||
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Excellent intro by PatrickD. I tried to improve it further.--Andy Schlafly 22:57, 31 October 2009 (EDT)
- I realize that reverting the site owner is not to be taken lightly. I moved your stuff down lower, because the term "scalar" hadn't been defined yet. Also, I didn't agree with your notion that the derivative of the temperature is a vector. Then I realized that you are referring to the gradient. However, I think that discussion of the gradient is premature this early in the introduction to vectors. We need a better connection to gradients (and vector dot products and cross products, of course) later in the article. I don't know just how this should be done. But at this early point in the article, I think that what I wrote is close to the right thing.
- You should take my recent change in the spirit of "How about this as proposed improvement?", not as "I reverted you." It just seemed that editing my proposed changes into the article was simpler than making sandbox articles or extensive discussion here on the talk page. Please feel free to improve!!! PatrickD 23:27, 31 October 2009 (EDT)