Questions 2: Vectors

1. What is a vector?
2. How is defined the sum of two vectors?
3. How is defined the difference of two vectors?
4. What does it mean to resolve a vector along two directions?
5. What are the cartesian components of a vector?
6. Write the sum of two vectors in terms of their cartesian components.
7. How is defined the dot product of two vectors?
8. Knowing the cartesian components of two vectors, how is it possible to evaluate the
angle between the two vectors?
9. Write the dot product of A B in terms of the cartesian components of A and B.
10. What is the cross product of two vectors?
11. How is directed the cross product of two given vectors?
12. What is a unit vector?
13. What is the derivative and the integral of a vector in terms of its cartesian components?
14. Show that the derivative of a unit vector with respect to a parameter is perpendicular
to the vector itself.