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Essential Idea
Some quantities have direction and magnitude, others have magnitude only, and this understanding is the key to correct manipulation of quantities. This sub-topic will have broad applications across multiple fields within physics and other sciences.
Nature Of Science
Models: First mentioned explicitly in a scientific paper in 1846, scalars and vectors reflected the work of scientists and mathematicians across the globe for over 300 years on representing measurements in three-dimensional space.
Guidance
Resolution of vectors will be limited to two perpendicular directions
Problems will be limited to addition and subtraction of vectors and the multiplication and division of vectors by scalars
Utilization
Navigation and surveying (see Geography SL/HL syllabus: Geographic skills)
Force and field strength (see Physics sub-topics 2.2, 5.1, 6.1 and 10.1)
Vectors (see Mathematics HL sub-topic 4.1; Mathematics SL sub-topic 4.1)
Objectives
Describe the difference between vector and scalar quantities and give examples of each
Add and subtract vectors by a graphical technique, such as tail-to-head or parallelogram rule
Objectives
Find the components of a vector along a given set of axes
Reconstruct the magnitude and direction of a vector from its given components
Solve problems with vectors
Vectors
Cannot be fully specified without both a number (magnitude) and direction
Represented by an arrow from left to right over the variable
Two vectors are equal only if both their magnitude and direction are the sameA
Multiplying a Vector by a Scalar Multiplication of a vector by a scalar
only affects the magnitude and not the direction
3xA
Trigonometry Revisited
A
BC
x
y
A
Bx
A
B
adj
oppx
C
Ax
C
A
hyp
adjx
C
Bx
C
B
hyp
oppx
o
o
o
1
1
1
tan,tan
cos,cos
sin,sin
45
Adding VectorsComponent Method
A
A
xA
yA
2.2145sin30
3045sin
2.2145cos30
3045cos
from45,30
oy
yo
ox
xo
o
A
A
A
A
xA
Adding VectorsComponent Method
B
B
xB
yB
5.825sin20
2025sin
1.1825cos20
2025cos
from25,20
oy
yo
ox
xo
o
B
B
B
B
xB
Adding VectorsComponent Method
R
xR
yR
2.41
6.125.81.21
2.391.181.21
22
222
yx
yyy
xxx
RRR
cba
BAR
BAR
Essential Idea
Some quantities have direction and magnitude, others have magnitude only, and this understanding is the key to correct manipulation of quantities. This sub-topic will have broad applications across multiple fields within physics and other sciences.
Summary: Can you
describe the difference between vector and scalar quantities and give examples of each?
add and subtract vectors by a graphical technique, such as tail-to-head or parallelogram rule?
Summary: Can you
find the components of a vector along a given set of axes?
reconstruct the magnitude and direction of a vector from its given components?
solve problems with vectors?