Vectors

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What is a vector?
A quantity that has magnitude and direction
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What are the different fonts vectors are written in?
Bold print and underlined
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What type of vector is this?
What type of vector is this?
Column vectors
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What are unit vectors?
When we use the components i and j
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What does the unit vector i mean?
i = 1 right

1

0
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What does the unit vector j mean?
j= 1 up

0

1
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Where do position vectors always start?
At the origin
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For position vectors, what are the coordinates the same as?
The coefficients of i and j
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When calculating vectors in parallelograms, what do you usually need to consider?
Equal vectors

Negative vectors
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How would you represent the magnitude of vector **a** ?
**I** a **I**
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What formula do we tend to use to calculate the magnitude of vectors?
Pythagoras theorem
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How would we find the distance between two points with vectors?
Use position vectors

And then calculate magnitude- Pythagoras theorem
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Modelling with vectors recap

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<p>Example 19</p>

Example 19

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<p>Example 20 a,b</p>

Example 20 a,b

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<p>Example 20 c,d</p>

Example 20 c,d

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What is the magnitude of the velocity vector?

Speed

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Summary of key points

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