Thursday, February 14, 2008

Science Notes 2-14-08

Here are the notes we took in science (for the people who were absent or those who took crappy notes):


Vector

A quantity whose complete description involves magnitude and direction
Represented by an arrow drawn to scale

Examples of a vector quantity: velocity, force, acceleration

Scalar
A quantity described only by magnitude

Examples of a scalar quantity: mass, volume, speed

Working with Vectors
Vectors in the same direction → add
Vectors in the opposite direction → subtract
Nonparallel vectors → use parallelogram rule


-KAYLA

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