OUTLINE

1. Fundamental Properties of Vectors

2. Representation of Vectors Using Rectangular Components

3. Vector Multiplication

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 Fundamental Properties of Vectors 1/3
A Scalar is a quantity that has magnitude only.

A Vector is a quantity that possesses magnitude and direction and obeys

the parallelogram law for addition.

Unit Vectors

Parallelogram Law for Addition and the Triangle Law

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Addition is commutative
Addition is associative

Subtraction of two vectors

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Fundamental Properties of Vectors 3/3

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 Representation of Vectors Using Rectangular Components 1/4

Rectangular components and direction cosines 1/2

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Rectangular components and direction cosines 2/2

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 Representation of Vectors Using Rectangular Components 3/4

Vector addition using rectangular components and direction

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Relative position vectors

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 Vector Multiplication 1/7

Dot (scalar) product

The dot product is commutative

and distributive.

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Dot (scalar) product 1/2

Finding the angle between two vectors

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 Vector Multiplication 3/6

Dot (scalar) product 2/2

Determining the Orthogonal component of a vector in a given direction

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 Vector Multiplication 4/6

Cross (vector) product

The sense of C is determined by the right-hand rule:

when the fingers of your right hand are curled in the direction of the
angle (directed from A toward B), your thumb points in the direction of C

The cross product is distributive

The cross product is neither
commutative/associative
Based on the definition of the cross product:
(i) If A and B are perpendicular ( = 90), then C = AB
(ii) If A and B are parallel ( = 0 or 180), then C = 0

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 Vector Multiplication 5/6

Base vectors of a rectangular coordinate system

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Base vectors of a rectangular coordinate system 1/2

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 Vector Multiplication 6/6

Expansion of minors using the first row

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Scalar triple product 1/2

The scalar triple product arises when the cross product of two vectors is dotted with a
third vector.

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Scalar triple product 2/2

The determinant form

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 Literature

Engineering Mechanics Statics, 12th Edition, R. C. HIBBERLER

Excerpt from: Engineering Mechanics, Bhavikatti, S.S., Emeritus Professor, BVB

College of Engineering & Technology, 4th Ed. 2012.

Engineering Mechanics 1, Statics, Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jorg Schroder,

Wolfgang A. Wall Nimal Rajapakse, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.

A Textbook of Engineering Mechanics, R.S. Khurmi, S. Chand & Company Ltd.

Engineering Mechanics, Statics, 3rd Edition, Andrew Pytel and Jaan Kiusalaas, 2010.

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