Work is considered a scalar quantity because it has magnitude but no direction. While force and displacement are vector quantities, the product of the magnitude of the force and the displacement (in the direction of the force) results in a scalar quantity, which is work.
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Work is considered a scalar quantity because it only has magnitude and no direction. It is defined as the dot product of force and displacement vectors, resulting in a single numerical value representing energy transfer, without any associated directional component.