Practise using vector components when adding, subtracting or calculating the magnitude of vectors ahead of your National 5 Maths exam. Revise using vector components to add and subtract vectors and ...

Any vector can be expressed as a sum of a number of other vectors. The vectors which are summed are called the components of the original vector. When you want to add and subtract two dimensional ...

(In contrast a scalar quantity has magnitude only - eg, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4...) The diagram above represents a vector. The arrow displays its direction, hence this ...