VECTORS AND PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS

• Geometric Vectors
  
• Geometric Vectors (a good discussion)
• Unit Vectors (a demonstration)
• Graphing Vector Calculator
• Adding Vectors applet
• Subtracting Vectors applet
• Applet to show vector relationships
  
• Algebraic Vectors  
  
• Vectors in Three-Dimensional Space
  
• Vectors in Space
• Sums of Vectors and Their Components -- interactive
• Graphing Vector Calculator
• The Cross Product of Two Vectors
• Perpendicular Vectors
  
• Commutative Law for Inner Product (Dot Product)
• Distributive Law for Inner Product (Dot Product)
• Inner Product (Dot Product) demonstration
• Applications with Vectors
• Why the area of a parallelogram is the determinant of two vectors
• Vector Equation of a Line applet
• Steamboat Captains Worksheet
• Airline Passenger Worksheet
• Sail Away Worksheet
• Parametric & Vector Equations
• Discussion & visualization of parametric functions
• What is a parameter?  (Go to Discussion:  Using Flash)
  
• Tool for plotting parametric equations
• Property of Cycloid with applet
• Visualizing cycloids
• Visualizing cycloids
• Another place to visualize a cycloid
• Working with cycloids
• Information about the cycloid
• Generating cycloid demonstration
• Modeling Motion Using Parametric Equations
• Transformational Matrices in Three-Dimensional Space
  
• Lines and Planes in Space
• Graphing in Three Dimensions
• Planes in Three-Space applet (scroll to bottom of page)applet
• Equation of a Plane applet
• Centroids
• Centroid demo
• Summaries and Review Problems and more Review Problems
• Review problems on vector mathematics--Go to Calculus Book III, then to Vectors and Analytic Geometry , then choose any topic in that chapter
• Review problems

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