[scheduled:: 2025-01-09]
Vector Components
Links and useful resources
- START HERE: Physics 2024 class outline
- Handwritten math converter
- IXL science grade 8 (some physics skills)
- OpenSTAX high school physics
- NotebookLM physics notebook
- Physics projects
- Physics classroom online interactive tools
- AP Physics 1 Dan Fullerton videos
Lesson-specific resource links
PhysicsClassroom.com concept builders for vector math:
Demonstration
- Add two horizontal vectors, vertical vectors
- Add two 2d vectors graphically
- Draw a vector in quadrant 1 and break it into axis-parallel components
- move it to Q2 and ask them to find components, then Q-3 then Q4
- components are always the same
Concept summary and connections
- vector components
- vector addition
- component addition
- vector graphical addition
- decomposing vectors
Worked examples
Media resources
- Youtube search for "vector components"
- Youtube search for "vector addition"
- Youtube search for "component addition"
- Youtube search for "vector graphical addition"
- Youtube search for "decomposing vectors"
Guided practice
This is the meat of the class, do several of each of these as on-the-board challenges. Vary the positions, orientations, and sizes of the vectors involved.