I am writing an article on data acquisition pertaining to terrain mapping. I want to know if I can collectively call mapping of such static surfaces, scalar fields? So in otherwords does stating them as scalar field imply that they dont change over time or time-invariant? Since, Vector field on the other hand imply change, by the very definition of the "magnitude" & "direction". So does stating scalar field imply the it is time invariant?
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Does Scalar Field imply it is time-invarant
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Scalar is just one element of a field. Thus, a scalar function is a function that takes as argument only one element of that field. Obviously, time is a scalar, and a function that only depends on time is also a scalar function. Nothing to do with time-invariance.
Don't mix up spacetime invariances with a function being vector- or scalar- valued. A vector function can also be rotational or translational invariant. It doesn't have to 'change' (e.g. constant vector field).