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In addition to possessing magnitude, many familiar physical quantities, such as wind velocity and force, involve direction in an essential way. These quantities can be represented mathematically by vectors. It turns out that vectors are also very useful in geometry, and you will have ample opportunity to see this when we study curves and surfaces. In the present chapter, the basic properties of vectors are described.
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© 1996 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden
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Casey, J. (1996). Keeping Track of Magnitude, Direction and Sense: Vectors. In: Exploring Curvature. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80274-3_6
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