Introduction to "head to tail" vector addition in the geometric sense. This is then applied to an example of working out a boat's velocity relative to land given the velocity of the current and the velocity of the boat relative to water are both known.

Vector addition including a boat example (MathsCasts)

These MathsCasts were produced by the mathematics support centres at Swinburne University, the University of Limerick and Loughborough University. They were part of a collaborative research project to develop high quality resources and investigate the effectiveness of MathsCasts to support mathematics learning. The full set of resources are available at http://commons.swin.edu.au/s/mathscasts MathsCasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

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Vector addition including a boat example (MathsCasts)

Vector addition including a boat example (MathsCasts)