What are component vectors?
1 Answer
Jan 10, 2015
A vector has both magnitude (which is its length) and direction (which is its angle).
Any two dimentional vector at an angle will have a horizontal and a vertical component .
A vector written as ( 12 , 8 ) will have 12 as its horizontal component, and 8 as its vertical component, and because both components are positive, the vector is pointing to the northeastern direction.
