QCE Together Year 12 Specialist Maths: Unit Vectors and Vectors in Two Dimensions

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Unit Vectors and Vectors in Two Dimensions

This is part of the QCE Specialist Maths course under Unit 3: Mathematical induction, and further vectors, matrices and complex numbers, specifically unit vectors and vectors in two dimensions.

In this post, we look at Topic 2: Vectors and matrices and reviewing the concepts of vectors from Unit 1.

In this post, we cover:

  • How to convert a non-zero vector into a unit vector
  • Define and use the direction of a vector in two dimension

 

Unit Vectors

Unit vectors are vectors that have a length of 1 (making them unitary) but can have any angle.

 

Using vectors in two dimensions

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