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Vectors

Magnitude, direction, components, and adding vectors head to tail.

A vector is a quantity with magnitude and direction, displacement, velocity, force. In components it is just a column of numbers, adding entry by entry; its length comes from Pythagoras. Linear algebra picks up here.

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\left[\begin{matrix}3\\4\end{matrix}\right]

Trin for trin

  1. \left[\begin{matrix}3\\4\end{matrix}\right]

    A 2×1 matrix.

  2. \operatorname{rank} A = 1

    Rank (number of independent rows).

  3. A^T = \left[\begin{matrix}3 & 4\end{matrix}\right]

    Transpose.

Afslør svaret
\left[\begin{matrix}3\\4\end{matrix}\right]

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Hvordan: Vectors

  1. A 2×1 matrix.
  2. Rank (number of independent rows).
  3. Transpose.

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What is a function, really?

A rule that assigns exactly one output to each input. The vertical-line test on a graph is the same idea: no input may have two outputs.

Why do we need complex numbers?

Because x² + 1 = 0 has no real solution, and allowing one new number i with i² = −1 makes every polynomial equation solvable. They then turn out to describe rotation, waves and alternating current more naturally than real numbers do.

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