In this unit you will be manipulate vectors in graphical form and reinforce your understanding of vectors with these interactive activities.

In Spanish. This is an approach to the concept of free vector and its coordinates, calculating translation and symmetries of simple figures.

College professor Dan Bach offers a review of the calculus concepts of integrals and vectors. Examples and animated graphs are provided.

Three different motions are presented to the learner in this interactive, with the challenge of determining the distance traveled and the overall displacement for each.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine the physical description of vector displacement additions.

Interactive figures to learn about vectors.

A practical application of the use of the components of vectors with force. Example and general form are both given.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lessons students will be defining and calculating cross products and normal vectors. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...

Students explore a variety of variables associated with the trajectory of a projectile including the launch height, angle, and speed. This interactive can be used as a purely exploratory activity or be used with an activity sheet that...

In this simulation, students pretend to launch bananas from a canon to the monkeys at the zoo. The monkeys sometimes let go of the branch at the exact moment the banana is launched. So the students must determine the correct aim angle...

Through examples and practice problems, this interactive tutorial helps students understand forces that are in a state of equilibrium with a net force of zero.

Observe the three planes in an animation where each plane flies amidst a wind that blows at 20 mph. Learn how tailwinds affect the resultant velocities.

Four different animated illustrations that show situations of bananas being thrown at a monkey in different gravity situations.

Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.

Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.

With this animation and explanation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a banana at a monkey in a normal gravity situation.

In this animation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a projectile in slow speed in a normal gravity situation.

With this animation, students can imagine a cannonball being launched from a cannon atop a very high cliff. Imagine as well that the cannonball does not encounter a significant amount of air resistance.

Visualize and read about launching an object from a non-horizontal position so that it becomes a projectile.

Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...

Consider a plane moving with a constant speed at an elevated height above the Earth's surface. In the course of its flight, the plane drops a package from its luggage compartment. This animation depicts such a situation. The path of the...

Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...

Students are introduced to the two scalar and vector quantities of distance and displacement with several illustrated practice problem opportunities.

By the end of this section, you will be able to observe that motion in two dimensions consists of horizontal and vertical components and understand the independence of horizontal and vertical vectors in two-dimensional motion.