This week we did Aleks & we have been doing stuff with vectors.
vectors have a magnitude and a directions.
to add vectors you add head to the tail.
the triangle formed by the vectors give the resultant vector.
to add vectors algebraically you add components.
to find the magnitude > square root of x^2 + y^2
magnitude is done a|^->|
scalar multiplication puts a scalar times each component.
geometric representation = picture.
head ----tail
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Example:
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~~A+B =
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~~2A + 1/2B
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