Vector Operations向量运算.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is a right triangle: We call it a right triangle because it contains a right angle. The measure of a right angle is 90o 90o Pythagorus realized that if you have a right triangle, 3 4 5 and you square the lengths of the two sides that make up the right angle, 3 4 5 and add them together, 3 4 5 you get the same number you would get by squaring the other side. 3 4 5 The two sides which come together in a right angle are called The two sides which come together in a right angle are called The two sides which come together in a right angle are called The side across from the right angle a b is called the Find the length of a diagonal of the rectangle: 15 8 ? b = 8 a = 15 c b = 8 a = 15 c Find the length of a diagonal of the rectangle: 15 8 17 Your Turn A vector has a magnitude of 18 and an x component of -7. a) Determine the two possibilities values of its y component. b) Determine the two possibilities for the vectors direction. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Target Students will analyze vector operations in 2-dimensions 2-D Vectors Up to now if we want to add or subtract two vectors we would have to draw them accurately and then measuring the result accurately. Vector Direction If Fidos dog chain is stretched upward and rightward and pulled tight by his master, then the tension force in the chain has two components - an upward component and a rightward component. To Fido, the influence of the chain on his body is equivalent to the influence of two chains on his body - one pulling upward and the other pulling rightward. If the single chain were replaced by two chains. with each chain having the magnitude and direction of the components, then Fido would not know the difference. This is not because Fido is dumb (a quick glance at his picture reveals that he is certainly not that), but rather because the combined influence of the two components is equivalent to the influence of the single two-dimensional v