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Course Summary
Learn everything you need to know to get through Vectors and prepare you to go into Differential Equations with a solid understanding of what’s going on. Video explanations, text notes, and quiz questions that won’t affect your class grade help you “get it” in a way most textbooks never explain.
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Course outline
The curriculum includes:
Introduction to vectors
Vector from two points
Combinations of vectors
Sum of two vectors
Copying vectors and using them to find combinations
Unit vector in the direction of the given vector
Angle between a vector and the x-axis
Magnitude and angle of the resultant force
Dot products
Dot product of two vectors
Angle between two vectors
Orthogonal, parallel, or neither
Acute angle between the lines
Acute angle between the curves
Direction cosines and direction angles
Scalar equation of a line
Scalar equation of a plane
Scalar and vector projections
Cross products
Cross product of two vectors
Vector orthogonal to the plane
Volume of the parallelepiped given vectors
Volume of the parallelepiped given adjacent edges
Scalar triple product for coplanar vectors
Vector functions and space curves
Domain of the vector function
Limit of the vector function
Sketching the vector equation
Projections of the curve
Vector and parametric equations of a line segment
Vector function for the curve of intersection of two surfaces
Derivatives and integrals of vector functions
Derivative of a vector function
Unit tangent vector
Parametric equations of the tangent line
Integral of a vector function
Arc length and curvature
Arc length
Reparametrizing the curve
Unit tangent vectors and unit normal vectors
Curvature
Maximum curvature
Normal and osculating planes
Velocity and acceleration
Velocity and acceleration vectors
Velocity, acceleration and speed, given position
Velocity and position given acceleration and initial conditions
Tangential components and normal components of acceleration
Line integrals
Line integral of a curve
Line integral of a vector function
Conservative vector fields
Potential function of a conservative vector field
Independence of path
Work done by the force field
Open, connected, and simply-connected regions
Green's theorem
Green's theorem with one region
Green's theorem with two regions
Curl and divergence
Curl and divergence of a vector field
Potential function of a conservative vector field
Parametric surfaces and areas
Points on the surface
Surface of the vector equation
Parametric representation of the surface
Tangent plane to the parametric surface
Area of the surface
Surface integrals
Surface integrals
Stokes' and divergence theorem
Stokes theorem
Divergence theorem
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