Vectors, a spin-off by-product of our Accelerators and Beams project, a multimedia tutorial on charged-particle dynamics, has been available from Physics Academic Software since 1997. Vectors is, in a sense, a mathematical appendix to this set of tutorials. However, it stands alone as a software tutorial in its own right. An early version of Vectors won an Honorable Mention in the 1996 Computers in Physics Educational Software Contest.

Vectors has five sections:

1. Fundamentals: Vectors and Related Concepts
2. A Little History
3. Some Examples
4. Geometrical Vector Operations
5. Component Operations

and an Appendix on Notation.

Here is a sample page from Vectors.

You can also interact with a web-enabled demo from Vectors, dealing with the geometric addition of vectors.

A short review from Medical and Science Media On-Line (Australia).

Ordering Info

• Win3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP
  
  
• Published by Physics Academic Software
  • $100 per copy (site licenses available)
  • 1 (800) 955-8275
    
    
• Buy on-line at a discount, i.e., $89.95 per copy.