A program that will randomly generate a vector in three dimensions. You must find the x, y, and z components of that vector.

This program's sole purpose is help students visualize position vectors in three dimensions. Students will be able to move a ball around in a room and they will be shown the position vector for the location of the ball relative to the...

Students will explore the accomplishment and societal repercussions of Gertrude Ederle being the first woman to swim the English Channel. They will also model vectors representing the currents she had to face to accomplish these...

This can be used as a short vocabulary quiz for vector definitions.

In this activity, students investigate and graph parametric functions, vectors, polar functions, and 3D functions.

Students will study various properties of projectile motion by showing how the calculator manipulates three dimensional vectors, deriving the standard equations of motion for projectile motion, and applying these equations to 1st and 2nd...

Learners experience and analyze two different methods of lifting a bowling ball. By using and understanding vectors, they create a useful free body diagram to explain why one person can lift the bowling ball easier than two people

Idenitfy the sum, difference and scalar multiple of column vectors and represent the results graphically.

Test your knowledge of parallel vectors.

A program that will randomly move an object from one location to another in three dimensional space. You must determine the length of the displacement vector that is created by this movement.

Students must find out the velocity vector for a student practicing their marching at night under a strobe light.

Students must find out the velocity vector for a plane based on readings they take from a radar screen. This video helps students solve the problem: https://youtu.be/y7jOBYseolU

At this site from Math World you can find out various normal vector formulas, including normal vectors of planes, surfaces, tangent vectors, and three dimensional surfaces. This site also explains how the unit normal vector is derived.

Through examples and interactive practice problems, this physics tutorial helps students understand how forces behave on an object on an inclined plane.

This resource explains line integrals in relation to conservative vector fields. It contains example problems with solutions and additional problems to work.

Great site explaining vector calculus.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at finding the direction and magnitude of vectors and breaking vectors into component parts.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand vector subtraction v - w as v + (-w), where -w is the additive inverse of w, with the same magnitude as w and pointing in the opposite direction....

Become a student of physics and approach the task of adding vector quantities, which also include direction. See this head-to-tail animation which helps with the visualization of this concept.

By the end of this section, you will be able to understand the rules of vector addition and subtraction using analytical methods, apply analytical methods to determine vertical and horizontal component vectors, and apply analytical...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you'll learn how to multiply a vector by a scalar, what the resulting quantity is, and how to represent it.

Add two vectors in magnitude and direction form to get a new vector in component form. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Find the magnitude of a vector. You'll see vectors given in graphs, given in component form, and given by initial and terminal points. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...

Find a unit vector in the direction of a given vector. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.