R D Sharma Ch. 30. Vectors

30. Vectors

1. Introduction
2. Representation of vectors
3. Equality of vectors
4. Types of vectors
5. Parallelogram law of addition of vectors
6. Subtraction of vectors
7. Multiplication of a vector by a scalar
8. Position vector
9. Section formula
10. Linear combination of vectors
11. Collinear and non-collinear vectors
12. Collinear points
13. Components of a vector
14. Components of a vector in three dimensions
15. Collinearity and coplanarity
16. Linear independence and dependence of vectors
17. Angle between two vectors
18. The scalar or dot product
19. Geometrical interpretation of scalar product
20. Properties of scalar product
21. Scalar product in terms of components
22. Angle between two vectors
23. Components of a vector b along perpendicular to vector a
24. Tetrahedron
25. Application of scalar product in mechanics to find the work done
26. Definition of vector product
27. Properties of vector product
28. vector product in terms of components
29. Vectors normal to the plane of two given vectors
30. Some important results
31. Lagrange’s identity
32. Application of vector product in mechanics to find the moment of a force
33. Application of vector product to find the moment of a couple
34. Scalar triple product
35. Properties of scalar triple product
36. Scalar triple product in terms of components
37. Distributivity of cross product over vector addition
38. Volume of a tetrahedron
39. Vector triple product
40. Geometrical applications of vectors
41. Solutions of vector equations