Vocabulary and Review Problems

Algebraic properties of vectors

The following properties hold for vectors , and in and scalars and in .

(a)
Commutative Property of Addition

(b)
Associative Property of Addition

(c)
Existence of Additive Identity:

(d)
Existence of Additive Inverse:

(e)
Distributive Property over Vector Addition

(f)
Distributive Property over Scalar Addition

(g)
Associative Property for Scalar Multiplication

(h)
Multiplication by 1

Angle between vectors

Cross product

Direction vector for a line

Distance between two points

Dot product

Dot product properties

Equation of a plane

Head-to-tail rule for vector addition

Length (norm, magnitude) of a vector

Normal vector

Orthogonal vectors

Parallel vectors

Parallelogram rule for vector addition

Parametric equations of a line

Projection of a vector onto a vector

Pythagoras’ Theorem

Scalar multiplication

Standard unit vectors

Unit vector

Vector

Vector addition

Zero vector