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Short Course: Introduction to Vectors - Part I

Topic	Description
What is a vector?	The concept of a vector is explained along with a scalar. We give some simple examples of vectors.
Drawing vectors	We show how to draw vectors on a cartesian coordinate plane.
Length of a vector	We show how to compute the length of a vector.
Direction angle	We show how to compute the angle a vector makes with the x-axis.
Breaking a vector into x and y components	We describe how to break a vector into x and y components.

Coming soon vector analysis software.

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