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The vectors that we deal with in engineering usually are neither constant in space, nor in time. Such vectors are functions of position, i.e., they have different values depending on where we look; the collection of such vectors are called vector fields.
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Strack, O.D.L. (2020). Vector Fields. In: Applications of Vector Analysis and Complex Variables in Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41168-8_2
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