Mathematics GCSE
Parallel and collinear vectors
What Parallel and collinear vectors means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Parallel and collinear vectors
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Lines are parallel when one vector is a scalar multiple of the other; points are collinear when one vector between them is a scalar multiple of another and they share a common point.
Topics that use Parallel and collinear vectors
- Geometry and measures - Vectors (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- column vector notation
- 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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