When you have completed this course, you should be able to
- Determine whether a physical quantity is a vector or a scalar.
- Add and subtract vector quantities using graphical method.
- Add and subtract vector quantities using analytical method.
- Cosine law and its application.
- Define unit vectors.
- Find component of a vector.
- Describe vector quantities in terms of components.
- Multiply vector to scalar.
- Define a dot (scalar) product of two vectors, and use dot products to determine angles between vectors and the projection of a vector on an arbitrary axis.
- Define and calculate a cross (vector) product of two vectors using either Cartesian notation or the algebraic definition and the right-hand rule.
- Solve problems.