Recently, I was talking about vectors. At that time, I had to stop and recall how I had been representing vectors. Ideally, I should stick with the same notation I used in Basics: Vectors and Vector ...

For a point P, we call the vector from the origin to the point P the position vector of P. When P has coordinates (1,4,8) the position vector of P has components \(\left( ...

One of the most important topics taught at the start of introductory physics is the idea of vectors. Students really need proficiency with them if they are to use force and momentum. Just about every ...

\(\overrightarrow {PQ}\) has components \(\left( \begin{array}{l} 2\\ 5 \end{array} \right)\) \(\overrightarrow {QR}\) has components \(\left( \begin{array}{l} 4\\ -3 ...