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