Date:

Saturday 15
February 2
025

VECTORS
Aims – To be able to find, add and subtract column vectors
(B)
-To be able to find resultant vectors (B)
-To be able to answer exam questions featuring vectors (A)
 Vectors
What are they?

What do they look like?

Properties

Resultants (many to one)

Rewriting Resultants (one to

many)
What is the difference
between speed and
velocity?

=> Velocity is speed combined with

 What are Vectors? HOME

A scalar quantity is simply => Vectors have both

anything in life that can magnitude (size) and direction
be described by just a
number Examples

Velocity = speed + direction

e.g. the temperature, my age e.g. wind velocity is 20kmh East

However, a vector is a Displacement = distance +

quantity that needs a direction
direction as well for it to
e.g. displacement of Leeds from York
make sense.
is 25 miles West

=> Vector is a posh way of describing a directed

 What do they look like?
Vectors can be represented as:

1) Straight Lines 2) Column Vectors

direction 3
1
Size

=> Vectors are pathways HOME

 What do they look like?
The line from A to B can be
named in different ways:

AB OR a OR a
B

HOME
 Column Vector Notation

If this number is

3 positive, you move

right, if it is negative,
  you move left
4
  If this number is
positive, you move up,
if it is negative, you
move down

Copy this down! HOME

Have a go… What do they look like? HOME
b 1 
a   1 to the right, and 3 up
a  3
5  5 to the right, and 2
c b   down
  2
d   3 3 to the left, and 2 down
c  
  2
 0 0 to the right, and 3 up
d  
 3
Have a go… What do they look like? HOME
 Date:
Saturday 15 F
ebruary 2025

VECTORS
Aims – To be able to find, add and subtract column vectors
(B)
-To be able to find resultant vectors (B)
-To be able to answer exam questions featuring vectors (A)
 Vectors
What are they?

What do they look like?

Properties

Resultants (many to one)

Rewriting Resultants (one to

many)
 B

What is AB as a column vector

 B

What is AB as a column vector

 B

What is AB as a column vector

 Adding Vectors - Resultants
The resultant is a single vector which
is equivalent to a set of vectors
e.g. the result of adding a and b

a b
b

c=a+b HOME
 Adding Vectors - Resultants HOME
Exampl B
e
b
a C
c
A
AC or c = a + b

+ = =
Now try the worksheet on adding vectors…
 Date:
Saturday 15 Febru
ary 2025

VECTORS
Aims – To be able to multiply vectors by a scalar (L8)

STARTER: Draw the following Vector:

+ = =
 Properties

Vectors with the same

magnitude and
direction are equal
a B

A -a
If vectors have the same
magnitude and opposite directions
then:
AB = a and BA = -a
HOME
 Properties
If different sized vectors have the
same direction they are scalar
multiples of each other

m 2m

HOME
Multiplying Vectors
The only thing you need to remember when multiplying
vectors is that you multiply both the top and the bottom of
the vector!
p
 2  2  4
p   2p 2    
2p
 2  2  4

3  3  9
q 3 r q   3q 3    
q  2  2  6

1  1    4 
- 4r
r   -4r  4    
 2  2   8

Now try the worksheet on multiplying vectors…

 Date:
Saturday 15 February
2025

VECTORS
Aims – To be able to find and recognize parallel
vectors and apply this to geometry (L8)

STARTER: Draw the following Vectors:

 Parallel Vectors
2xa
=2a
a -a
2a -2a

Parallel Vectors can be different sizes but will

always be in the same or opposite direction.

You can have parallel vectors of

different sizes by multiplying them.
 Now try the
Parallel Vectors worksheet on parallel
vectors…
F G H

D E

A B C

If AC = n and BD = m, express the following vectors in terms of n

and m:
a) FH b) DE c) EC
d) BF e) FB f) BH
g) AD h) EB i) HC
 Rewriting Vectors
Vectors can be rewritten in terms of other
vectors

Find AC: B b
a C

a+
A b

AC = a + b
HOME
Rewrite the following vectors in terms of a, b and
c
Here is a regular Hexagon:
i) BA =-a
E D ii) CB =-b
iii) DC =-c
c
iv) AC =a+b
F C
v) AD =a+b+c
b Ext
A a B a) AF =c
b) ED =a
c) BF = -a + c
HOME
HOMEWORK – ROBOT WARS VECTORS
Rewrite the following vectors in terms of a, b and
c
Here is a regular Hexagon: i) ED = a
E D
ii) FE = b
c
iii) AF = c
F C
iv) AE = c + b
b v) DA = – c – b – a
A a B
vi) BF = – a + c
vii) EC = a – c

HOME viii) DF = – a – b
Rewrite the following vectors in terms of a and b
a. AP = a
b. AB = b – a
Q
c. OQ =2b
B N
d. PO = - 2a
b
P e. PQ = 2b – 2a
O a A f. PN = b – a
g. ON =a + b
h. AN =b
i. BP = 2a - b
j. QA = a – 2b HOME
 Vector Geometry

A B
AB = r
Y
AD = s
X AY:YD = 1:2
D C
DX:XB = 1:2

i) Show that YX is parallel to AC

ii) What is the ratio YX:AC
 Solutions

A r B AC = r + s

Y DB = r - s
s
YX = 2/3r + 1/3(r – s)
X
D C YX = 1/3(r + s)
i) AC and YX are scalar multiples =>
ii) YX :parallel
AC = 1 : 3
i) Show that YX is parallel to AC
ii) What is the ratio YX:AC
 Vector Geometry

B AB = p Solution
s
X AC = q BC = q - p
Y
XZ = ½(q –
A
p)
Z C => Scalar
multiples (same
X, Y and Z are all direction)
midpoints

i) Express BC in terms of p and q

ii) Show that XZ is parallel to BC
 Rewriting resultants
Resultant vectors can be broken
down in to their component vectors

e.g. a= x
y
a
y

x
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