Adding Vectors

Tip to tail

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Add vectors tip-to-tail, or add their components.
• Perpendicular vectors combine by Pythagoras.
• Forces in balance add to the zero vector.

Steps

1. Two walks
2. Tip to tail
3. Add components
4. Crossing a river
5. Balance the forces
6. Pilot’s heading