Mathematics GCSE
column vector notation
What column vector notation means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of column vector notation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A way of recording a slide where the top number is the movement right, negative for left, and the bottom number is the movement up, negative for down.
Topics that use column vector notation
- Geometry and measures - Vectors (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Parallel and collinear vectors
- Ratios on a line
- resultant vectors
- scalar multiplication
- translation on a grid
- Vector arithmetic (diagrammatic and column)
- column vector arithmetic
- diagrammatic representation
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