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Subtraction of vectors

Subtracting vectors is really just another way of adding two vectors. The easiest way to think of subtraction is to multiply the second quantity by a negative one and then add this to the first quantity. Thus, subtracting two vectors is really just the same as adding the negative of a vector.



Vector Calculus
Mon Jul 14 10:10:30 MST 1997