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  • Introduction to Vectors

    Written by: Kimberly Tran, SpacEdge Academy (formerly EIS Education) Team Member, January 2016                                                                                                                                     Updated July 2022
    Topic:  Arithmetic with vectors, Dot and Cross product, Vector projections, Vectors and forces
    Grade Level: High School

    Pre-requisites: Completion of grade 11 functions and grade 12 advanced functions is highly recommended. 

    Educational Standards: This projects supports U.S. Common-Core Standards:Mathematical functions  (pages 67-71) 
    This project meets these Next Generation Science Standards 
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    This course module is a summary of vectors and the various operations and applications utilizing those operations. The use of vectors in space is integral in explaining the orbiting of various space objects and may provide some insight to various microgravity experiments. 

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