Addition · magnitude · dot product · angle · drawing

|v| = √(x²+y²). Dot product a·b = aₓbₓ + a_yb_y; angle between vectors: cos θ = a·b / (|a|·|b|). The dashed green arrow is the resultant vector a+b.
Operations on vectors in the plane. Addition and subtraction are done component by component: . The magnitude (length) of a vector is:
The dot product lets you find the angle between the vectors:
The calculator draws both vectors and their resultant. When the dot product is 0, the vectors are perpendicular.
Their dot product must equal zero: a·b = 0. The angle between them is then 90°.
The sum of the vectors — in physics, for example, the resultant of several forces. Geometrically it is the diagonal of the parallelogram built on the vectors being added (the parallelogram rule).
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