For transport phenomena, flux is a vector quantity, describing the magnitude and direction of the flow of a substance or property. In electromagnetism, flux is a scalar quantity, defined as the surface integral of the component of a vector field perpendicular to the surface at each point.
Soft Credit Inquiry. A soft inquiry, or soft pull, is a term used to refer to an inquiry into your credit history that does not adversely affect the credit score. Often, you are not even aware that there has been a soft inquiry on your credit report.
Credit inquiries are requests by a legitimate business to check your credit. As far as your FICOÂ® score is concerned, credit inquiries are classified as either hard inquiries or soft inquiries â only hard inquiries have an affect on your FICO score. Soft inquiries are all credit inquiries where your credit is NOT being reviewed by a prospective lender.