Resultant of two or more vectors revision notes

Edexcel International GCSE Maths (4MA1), chapter 27: Vectors, specification point 5.1f. Part of the full course.

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A resultant is the single vector that replaces two or more vectors. You can find it by joining the vectors nose to tail, or by scaling and adding their column vectors row by row.

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