Understand unit vectors in cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems with a simple and intuitive explanation. This video breaks down how these vectors define direction in three-dimensional space ...
pre-reqs: trig Think of the following two things. Temperature and wind speed. These are two different things that you could measure, but there is one big difference. Wind speed has two parts to it - ...
Unit vectors have a magnitude of 1. The basic unit vectors are \(i = \left( \begin{array}{l}1\\ 0\\0\end{array} \right)\), \(j=\left(\begin{array}{l}0\\1\\0\end{array ...