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Vectors

This document discusses vectors and vector geometry. It includes examples of drawing vectors on a grid, finding the magnitude of a vector, expressing vectors in terms of other known vectors, and solving problems involving ratios of vector lengths.

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Vectors

This document discusses vectors and vector geometry. It includes examples of drawing vectors on a grid, finding the magnitude of a vector, expressing vectors in terms of other known vectors, and solving problems involving ratios of vector lengths.

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VECTORS AND VECTOR

GEOMETRY
1 Draw these vectors on the grid.
B
  5 
a AB    2
 2 A
5 2 G
  1 1 F
b CD    C 3
 3 
3
4 H
  3 
c EF    D
 4
3 E
  2 
d GH   
 3 
2 8
a 
6
Find the magnitude of the vector a.

|a|2 = 82 + 62
a
|a| = 64 + 36
2 6

|a|2 = 100
|a| = 10
8
Magnitude of the vector a is 10.
3 OABC is a parallelogram. C B
M
is the midpoint
 of AB.
OA  a and OC  c
Find in terms of a and c.
  c M
a CB  OA  a
 
b BA  OC  c
  
c OB  OA  AB  a  c a
O A
  
d CA  CO  OA  c  a
    
e OM  OA  AM  OA  2 AB  a  21 c
1
4 P and Q are the midpoints of O
sides OA and OB.
 
OP  p and OQ  q p q
Find in terms of p and q.
P Q

a OA  2p
  
b BA  BO  OA  2q  2q
   A B
c AQ  AO  OQ  2p  q
  
d PB  PO  OB  p  2q
5 AP : PB = 2 : 1 A
 
OA  a and OB  b
Find in terms of a and b.

   a


a AB  AO  OB
 a  b P
 2  O
b AP  AB
3
b
2
  a  b  B
3
  
c OP  OA  AP
2
a  a  b 
3
1 2
 a b
3 3

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