Say that you walk five blocks north, and then three blocks east.
If, instead, you had walked three blocks east and then five blocks north would you arrive at the same place?
Yes.
Vector addition is commutative,
Commutative Property:
a + b = b + a
where a and b are vectors.
If you start from point P in Figure 11
The head-to-tail rule yields vector c
Figure 11. Commutative. |
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