Vector Algebra

Vector Addition
Vector Subtraction
Dot (or Scalar) Product
Cross (or Vector) Product
Scalar Triple Product
Vector Triple Product
Components of a Vector
 Vector Addition

Parallelogram Rule
Head – to – Tail Rule
 Vector Addition

(a) parallelogram rule (b) head-to-tail rule

Vector Subtraction
 Vector Subtraction

(a) parallelogram rule (b) head-to-tail rule

Position Vector

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Distance Vector
 Dot Product

It obeys
Commutative law
Distributive law
Cross Product
Direction of A  B and an using (a) the right-hand rule and
(b) the right-handed-screw rule.
Cross Product
 Basic Properties of Cross Product

It is not commutative

It is anticommutative

It is not associative

It is distributive
Scalar Triple Product
Vector Triple Product
 Components of a Vector

(a) scalar component (b) vector component

of A along B of A along B