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2.8 Vectors I

Mathematics · Grade 10 · 15 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Vectors and scalars
  • Representing vectors: column vectors and notation
  • Addition and subtraction of vectors
  • Multiplication of a vector by a scalar
  • Magnitude of a vector
  • Translation as a vector

What you will be able to do

  • distinguish between vectors and scalars
  • represent vectors in column form
  • add and subtract vectors
  • multiply a vector by a scalar
  • calculate the magnitude of a vector

Key questions

“Why is knowing how far not enough without knowing which way?”

Lessons

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  1. Vectors and column form
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Quantities that need a direction, and how to write them down.
  2. Adding, subtracting and scaling vectors
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Combining vectors by components and by drawing, and what a scalar multiple does.
  3. Writing and drawing vectors
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Name a directed line segment in the accepted ways, then draw it to scale on a grid.
  4. Equivalent vectors
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Two vectors are equal when they have the same magnitude and the same direction, wherever they are drawn.
  5. The negative of a vector
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Reversing a vector changes every sign, gives the zero sum, and names the reverse journey.
  6. Triangle and parallelogram laws
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Add two vectors by completing a triangle or a parallelogram; both give the same resultant.
  7. The resultant of several vectors
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Chain three or more vectors head to tail; the closer from start to finish is the resultant.
  8. Column vectors on the Cartesian plane
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read a column from two plotted points, and plot the image of a point after a given column.
  9. Position vectors
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The position vector of a point is the vector from the origin to that point, and it shares the point's coordinates.
  10. The vector from A to B
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    AB equals the position vector of B minus the position vector of A.
  11. Magnitude in different situations
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Find the length of a vector, of a sum or difference, and the distance between two points.
  12. The midpoint of a line segment
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The position vector of the midpoint of AB is half the sum of the position vectors of A and B.
  13. Translation as a transformation
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    A translation maps every point by the same vector; the image is congruent and faces the same way.
  14. Combining translations
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Two translations one after another are equivalent to the single translation given by the sum of their vectors.
  15. Vectors in real life
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Use column vectors for map displacements, sports passes and combined movements in Kenyan settings.