大二上期末复习江财职协cic2013线性代数第三章.pptx

3 .The Vector Space Rn; 3.1 Introduction In mathematics and the physical sciences, the term vector is applied to a wide variety of objects. Perhaps the most familiar application of the term is to quantities, such as force and velocity, that have both magnitude and direction. Such vectors can be represented in two space or in three space as directed line segments or arrows. As we will see in chapter 5,the term vector may also be used to describe objects such as matrices , polynomials, and continuous real-valued functions. In this section we demonstrate that Rn, the set of n-dimensional vectors,