Is work a scalar or a vector quantity ?

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Work is dot product of vectors force and displacement , and dot products are scalar. Therefore work is an scalar quantity.
Another way of telling this is work has only magnitude and no direction, so it is a scalar

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Is work a scalar or a vector quantity ?

Work is dot product of vectors force and displacement , and dot products are scalar. Therefore work is an scalar quantity. Another way of telling this is work has only magnitude and no direction, so it is a scalar

Work is dot product of vectors force and displacement , and dot products are scalar. Therefore work is an scalar quantity.
Another way of telling this is work has only magnitude and no direction, so it is a scalar