Combined Science GCSE
Vector
What Vector means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A quantity for which direction matters, so both magnitude and direction are needed to describe it fully.
An arrow whose length shows magnitude and whose head shows direction, used to represent each force.
Something that carries the gene into the recipient cell, commonly a bacterial plasmid.
A quantity that also needs a direction, such as force, velocity and displacement.
Often a plasmid or virus, which carries the gene into the recipient cell.
A quantity for which direction matters as well as size.
Topics that use Vector
- Contact and non-contact forces (AQA GCSE)
- Fleming's left-hand rule (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
- Genetic engineering (AQA GCSE)
- Newton's Second Law (AQA GCSE)
- Scalar and vector quantities (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Force
- Magnitude
- Newton
- a = F ÷ m
- Acceleration
- Acceleration and deceleration
- Action at a distance
- Agricultural applications of genetic engineering
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