Carlos Pérez-Velázquez
Welcome to this site! . The goal of this short presentation is to enhance your understanding of vectors. Towards this goal, this short presentation will walk you through a review of the concepts of vectors and vector addition. After completing the presentation, you should be able to do the following,
a. Differentiate between a vector and a scalar quantity.
b.Recognize
from a set of vector representations, the negative of a given vector.
c.Recognize from a set of given vectors, the sum, or resultant of a given set of vectors.
In order to establish a baseline with which to compare your progress, I invite you to answer the set of ten multiple-choice questions that follows: please click here to answer the questions. Make sure you read instructions carefully before proceeding. Do your best job and don’t worry if, at this stage, you find some of the concepts or words strange or never before seen by you. You will not be able to proceed, until you have answered these questions. Good luck, and good learning!