%0 Journal Article %T O fragmentado e tortuoso processo de constru£¿£¿o dos conceitos de vetor e escalar %A Nelson %A Osman Rosso %A Carneiro Filho %A Ranilson %J Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F¨ªsica %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1806-11172012000100018 %X this paper is an attempt to draw attention to the inappropriate way of constructing the concepts of vector and scalar presented in most books on physics at the university level. %K vector space %K vector %K scalar. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-11172012000100018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en