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Units and Vectors

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The natural sciences started with measurement. According to historians, measurement may have started in around 3000 BC in Ancient Egypt.

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Karaoglu, B. (2020). Units and Vectors. In: Classical Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38456-2_1

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