Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphical Methods

Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphical Methods

This text discusses vectors in two dimensions; vectors in this text; vector addition: head-to-tail method; vector subtraction; multiplication of vectors and scalars; resolving a vector into components; and phet explorations: maze game. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • air resistance
  • analytical method
  • classical relativity
  • commutative
  • component
  • component of a 2-d vector
  • direction of a vector
  • head-to-tail method
  • kinematics
  • magnitude of a vector
  • motion
  • projectile motion
  • relative velocity
  • relativity
  • resultant
  • resultant vector
  • scalar
  • trajectory
  • vector
  • vector addition
  • velocity