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Addition and subtraction

The addition and subtraction of vectors is also carried out component by component. Thus, we have the following examples:

  1. Let tex2html_wrap_inline693 , and tex2html_wrap_inline695 be two vectors in tex2html_wrap_inline545 . The new vector, tex2html_wrap_inline699 is obtained by

    eqnarray119

  2. Let tex2html_wrap_inline677 and tex2html_wrap_inline679 be the same as the previous example. Then

    eqnarray133


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