Re: Scalar waves

Am Samstag000004, 04.05.2024 um 17:38 schrieb Ross Finlayson:

Consider the length of a body vis-a-vis the distance it
travels: both in units of length, yet distance as only
after a derivation of all the higher orders of acceleration
and deceleration whether it results a distance at rest, or,
a distance marking motion, that the other factors of the
dimensional analysis, go along with it, though algebraically,
at each point dimensionless.
 

A physical system has attributes.
These attributes can be measured.
The measure of this measurement has a dimension and a value.
The pyhsical system is space in this case.
In this space we have two points, which are somehow identifiable.
The distance is the length of a connecting streight line.
This length has the dimension 'length', which is quantified by approriate units (meters in case of SI-units).
So the measure of that distance has a certain value (say 2) and certain units (meters) and a certain dimension (length).
TH