Dealing with Vectors Vector Components Any vector can be expressed as a sum of a number of other vectors. The vectors which are summed are called the components of the original vector. When you want ...

Three dimensional vectors have three components. Example: velocity, force, acceleration. A vector with only one piece of information (a 1D vector), is a scalar.

Higher; Geometric vectors Determining the resultant in three dimensions. Vectors describe movement with both direction and magnitude. They can be added or subtracted to produce resultant vectors.

Also, this notation can be expanded to three dimensions by adding a z-hat or k-hat component. Another nice thing is that these vectors are all set up and ready to add. If you have a vector in ...