Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Triangle Inequality
This MathWorld site gives a good explanation of triangle inequality. The reader should be familiar with summation notation.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Flash Animations for Physics
This site boasts an extensive list of physics animations that cover topics such as electricity, magnetism, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Variables can be manipulated for each demonstration.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: River Running: Vector Components
In this activity, students use TI-Interactive! or TI-83/84's to explore the independence of vertical and horizontal velocity components for swimmers crossing a river.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Vectors Vocabulary Quiz
This can be used as a short vocabulary quiz for vector definitions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parametric, Vector, Polar and 3 D Functions
In this activity, students investigate and graph parametric functions, vectors, polar functions, and 3D functions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number Line
In this activity, students use the Number Line application to represent distance moved in a particular direction (West or East) using vectors.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Vectors and Projectile Motion on the Ti 89
Students will study various properties of projectile motion by showing how the calculator manipulates three dimensional vectors, deriving the standard equations of motion for projectile motion, and applying these equations to 1st and 2nd...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Trying to Find a 'Best' Fit a Heuristic Approach
In this Derive activity, students determine the optimal location for a warehouse so that it is close to the center of a circle that passes through all the outlets of a store in the region.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Groucho's Sign Shop
Students' use force sensors to investigate forces and learn about force as a vector. Similar concept to the common "spring scale" force vector lab, but with a real-world twist.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Polygons and Vectors
Students understand the concepts of vectors and their resultant. They get acquainted with the parallelogram law of vector addition.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Trivialization and Dynamisation
This activity will illustrate how classic exercises from elementary vector geometry can be solved using the Computer Algebra System CAS tool.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Visualizing Vectors
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to graph vectors. They also learn to find the sum of two vectors.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Vectors
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of vectors.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Vector Treasure Hunt
Students work in groups to find a "treasure" using directions from a map that has been torn into sections, and the directions are written as vectors.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hand Towing a Car: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Analysis
In this active learning activity, students will find a technique to move a car with one hand. Students are given only a tow strap, so the students must apply angular force to successfully move the car with one hand.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Centripetal Force Activity
In this physics activity, students will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for student...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Vectors: Lifting a Bowling Ball
Students experience and analyze two different methods of lifting a bowling ball. By using and understanding vectors, they create a useful free body diagram to explain why one person can lift the bowling ball easier than two people
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Vectores en El Espacio
In this unit you will be manipulate vectors in graphical form and reinforce your understanding of vectors with these interactive activities.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Movimientos en El Plano
In Spanish. This is an approach to the concept of free vector and its coordinates, calculating translation and symmetries of simple figures.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and 2 D Motion Table of Contents
Learners explore vectors, projectile motion, and forces in two-dimension. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Vectores en El Plano
In Spanish. Interactive activities to introduce the concept of a vector and its different operations.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Vectores Y Traslaciones
These are different interactive activities dealing with vectors, sum of vectors and translation of vectors.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Geometria Metrica
In Spanish. This interactive unit examines how to measure in space. The basic tools are the scalar and vectors.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Vector?
Physicists, air traffic controllers, and video game creators all have at least one thing in common: vectors. But what exactly are they, and why do they matter? David Huynh explains how vectors are a prime example of the elegance, beauty,...