﻿{"id":4889,"date":"2014-03-02T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2014-08-01T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T09:51:53","slug":"laws-of-vector-algebra-and-unit-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"Laws of vector algebra and unit vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"theContentWrap-ccc\"><blockquote>\n<h2>Laws of vector algebra<\/h2>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BA%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{A}' title='\\bold{A}' class='latex' \/>, <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BB%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{B}' title='\\bold{B}' class='latex' \/> and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BC%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{C}' title='\\bold{C}' class='latex' \/> are vectors, and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=m&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='m' title='m' class='latex' \/> and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=n&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='n' title='n' class='latex' \/> are scalars, then<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Blll%7D1.+%26+%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+%5Cbold%7BB%7D+%3D+%5Cbold%7BB%7D+%2B+%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%26+Communicative+Law+for+Addition%5C%5C+++2.+%26+%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+%28%5Cbold%7BB%7D+%2B+%5Cbold%7BC%7D%29+%3D+%28%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+%5Cbold%7BB%7D%29+%2B+%5Cbold%7BC%7D+%26+Associative+Law+for+Addition%5C%5C+++3.+%26+m%28n%5Cbold%7BA%7D%29+%3D+%28mn%29%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%3D+n%28m%5Cbold%7BA%7D%29+%26+Associative+Law+for+Multiplication%5C%5C+++4.+%26+%28m+%2B+n%29%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%3D+m%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+n%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%26+Distributive+Law%5C%5C+++5.+%26+m%28%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+%5Cbold%7BB%7D%29+%3D+m%5Cbold%7BA%7D+%2B+m%5Cbold%7BB%7D+%26+Distributive+Law+++%5Cend%7Barray%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\begin{array}{lll}1. &amp; \\bold{A} + \\bold{B} = \\bold{B} + \\bold{A} &amp; Communicative Law for Addition\\\\   2. &amp; \\bold{A} + (\\bold{B} + \\bold{C}) = (\\bold{A} + \\bold{B}) + \\bold{C} &amp; Associative Law for Addition\\\\   3. &amp; m(n\\bold{A}) = (mn)\\bold{A} = n(m\\bold{A}) &amp; Associative Law for Multiplication\\\\   4. &amp; (m + n)\\bold{A} = m\\bold{A} + n\\bold{A} &amp; Distributive Law\\\\   5. &amp; m(\\bold{A} + \\bold{B}) = m\\bold{A} + m\\bold{B} &amp; Distributive Law   \\end{array}' title='\\begin{array}{lll}1. &amp; \\bold{A} + \\bold{B} = \\bold{B} + \\bold{A} &amp; Communicative Law for Addition\\\\   2. &amp; \\bold{A} + (\\bold{B} + \\bold{C}) = (\\bold{A} + \\bold{B}) + \\bold{C} &amp; Associative Law for Addition\\\\   3. &amp; m(n\\bold{A}) = (mn)\\bold{A} = n(m\\bold{A}) &amp; Associative Law for Multiplication\\\\   4. &amp; (m + n)\\bold{A} = m\\bold{A} + n\\bold{A} &amp; Distributive Law\\\\   5. &amp; m(\\bold{A} + \\bold{B}) = m\\bold{A} + m\\bold{B} &amp; Distributive Law   \\end{array}' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that in these laws only multiplication of a vector by one or more scalars is defined. <\/p>\n<h2>Unit vectors<\/h2>\n<p>Unit vectors are vectors having unit length. If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BA%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{A}' title='\\bold{A}' class='latex' \/> is any vector with length <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A+%3E+0&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A &gt; 0' title='A &gt; 0' class='latex' \/>, then <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BA%7D%2FA&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{A}\/A' title='\\bold{A}\/A' class='latex' \/> is a unit vector, denoted by <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7Ba%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{a}' title='\\bold{a}' class='latex' \/>, having the same direction as <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cbold%7BA%7D&#038;bg=T&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\bold{A}' title='\\bold{A}' class='latex' \/>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/rcm-fe.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=fujiitoshiki-22&#038;o=9&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0071635408\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laws of vector algebra If , and are vectors, and and are scalars, then Note that in these laws only multiplica &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/?p=4889\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Laws of vector algebra and unit vectors&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mathematics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujiitoshiki.com\/improvesociety\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}