How to find direction in vector subtraction?
How to find direction in vector subtraction?
To find the direction in vector subtraction, let's consider (A – B). We have to use vector addition by rewriting it as A + (–B). Then, this negative vector (–B) will have the same magnitude as B. Only that it will point in the opposite direction. Then we will use the head-to-tail method. Following
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