{"id":1083,"date":"2008-05-11T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T05:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2015-01-13T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:01:40","slug":"vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/vectors-1083","title":{"rendered":"Vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many readers of Interactive Mathematics<\/a> have asked me to write a chapter on vectors.<\/p>\n

Well, your wish is my command and here you go: Vectors<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The chapter starts with an overview of what vectors are and vector notation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then the discussion proceeds through one-dimensional vectors<\/a>, through 2-D vectors<\/a> (containing a Flash-based aircraft landing activity) and leading to the juicy 3-D vectors stuff like cross product<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a brief section on vector calculus, including a discussion on time rate of change of the position vector in elliptical motion<\/a>, which is used in building Flash-based games.<\/p>\n

I added a section at the end on the interesting topic of vector art<\/a>. Digital artists produce vector graphics in image editing programs like Photoshop or the open source Inkscape<\/a>. The advantages are many, ranging from scalability and small file sizes.<\/p>\n

This guitar is an example of vector art.<\/p>\n

\"guitar\"<\/p>\n

I'll be adding more discussion, examples and exercises into the chapter when I get the chance − hopefully soon!<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think about the Vectors<\/a> chapter, including your suggestions for things you'd like to see added in there.<\/p>\n

See the 3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"guitar<\/a>There's a lot more to vectors than just forces and velocities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}