What is a scalar quantity?
A quantity with magnitude but no direction.
A quantity with magnitude and direction.
What is a vector quantity?
A quantity with both magnitude and direction
Is velocity scalar or vector?
Scalar
Vector
How do you calculate the magnitude of a vector quantity?
You use a right angle triangle with the known forces and calculate the hypotenuse with pythagoras' theorem.
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How do you calculate the direction of a vector quantity?
Use trigonometry.
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Is force a vector quantity?
Yes
No
Does a conker moving in a circle at a constant speed have a constant velocity?
When the conker has swung round the circle once and is back at it's starting point, what is it's total displacement? The circle has a circumference of x metres.
x meteres
0 metres
Is the force in the string swinging the conker round a vector quantity?
