Sunday, September 25, 2011

Blogpost #6

This week's unit has to do with vectors. A vector is a mathematical quantity with both magnitude (size and unit) and direction. This picture depicts me throwing a paper airplane to my roommate, Kanoe. The magnitude of the airplane's path would be about three meters. I'm not exactly sure of the degrees of the exact direction, but I'm guessing that the general direction is north. If Kanoe were to throw the plane back to me, it would not be an equivalent vector. Even though the magnitude would be the same, the airplane would not maintain the same direction, therefore the two vectors (airplane's flight path) would not be equivalent. 

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