Students take a journey through our physical world, beginning with the ways in which people quantify and model mathematically the existence and interaction of physical objects.

The mathematical model for the relationships between work and energy serves to model physical problems and, more importantly, predict natural and man-made phenomena. Students discover the relationships which serve as a powerful...

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Define and distinguish between scalar and vector quantities and Assign a coordinate system for a scenario involving one-dimensional motion.

From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains how to use the right-hand rule to determine direction for angular velocity, momentum, and torque. Also discusses the...

In the following interactive students will begin to apply principles of vector addition to determine relative velocity and explain the significance of the observer in the measurement of velocity.

Explore adding vectors by dragging objects on a canvas. Adding vectors can be easy with this Vector Guessing Game Interactive. Students can improve their understanding and skill at adding vectors using the head-to-tail method.

Try these vector addition challenges where twenty-five vectors are displayed on a grid. Each challenge involves adding three of the vectors together to determine the resultant. The emphasis of the activity is on component addition.

Try this adding vector challenge. Two random vectors are displayed, and students must quickly decide on the size and direction of the resultant. The challenge is to solve as many correctly as possible in 20 seconds. Repeat, and beat your...

Watch this short demonstration that focuses on a single question: Does the order in which vectors are added together affect the magnitude or the direction of the resultant?

This thorough explanation from the Glenbrook High School of different kinds of vector problems address relative velocity with an airplane and riverboat. Includes examples and a five question practice quiz. Answers with all work shown are...

An exceptional tutorial on the topic of vectors that offers many helpful graphics, some of which are interactive.

A program that will randomly move an object from one location to another in three-dimensional space. You must determine the three components of the velocity vector that is created by this movement and also the speed of the object during...

An interactive Java applet where users can rotate a vector about its tail and view the components of that vector. Magnitude of the components is updated on screen as the vector is dragged.

This program will allow students to quickly break a vector into components or turn the vector components into resultant vector.

In this physics tutorial, students learn how to approach more complex vector addition situations by combining the concept of vector components and the principles of vector resolution with the use of the Pythagorean theorem.

This game is intended to help students break a vector into components. They will be given a vector and then have click to see if they hit the right spot. Students need a score of 5 to successfully complete this activity.

This game is intended to help students get the idea of vector addition. Students will be given a randomly generated series of three vectors. They must follow the vectors to the end and then click to see if they hit the right spot.

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...

In this unit, students learn two basic methods for determining the magnitudes of the components of a vector directed in two dimensions. The two methods of vector resolution students will examine are the parallelogram method the...

In this physics tutorial on vectors, the use of kinematic equations to solve non-horizontally launched projectiles is demonstrated.

Through a short informational reading piece and an animated visual, students learn that vectors represent both magnitude and direction.

The emphasis of this unit is to understand some fundamentals about vectors, and to apply the fundamentals in order to understand motion and forces that occur in two dimensions.

Students examine examples of vectors that are directed in two dimensions- upward and rightward, northward and westward, eastward and southward, etc.