4.2.8 Vectors
To meet this assessment criteria you should:
To meet this assessment criteria you should:
Be familiar with the concept of a vector and the following notations for specifying a vector:
[2.0, 3.14159, -1.0, 2.718281828]
4-vector over ℝ written as ℝ4
function interpretation
0 ↦ 2.0
1 ↦ 3.14159
2 ↦ -1.0
3 ↦ 2.718281828
↦ means maps to
That all the entries must be drawn from the same field, eg ℝ.
Dictionary representation of a vector.
List representation of a vector.
1-D array representation of a vector.
Visualising a vector as an arrow.
Vector addition and scalar-vector multiplication.
Convex combination of two vectors, u and v.
Dot or scalar product of two vectors.
Applications of dot product.
