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The reason for this introduction to vectors is that many concepts in science, for example, displacement, velocity, force, acceleration, have a size or magnitude, but also they have associated with them the idea of a direction.
Graphically, a vector is represented by an arrow, defining the direction, and the length of the arrow defines the vector's magnitude.
The sum of two vectors, A and B, is a vector C, which is obtained by placing the initial point of B on the final point of A, and then drawing a line from the initial point of A to the final point of B, as illustrated in Panel 4.
Indeed, it is customary to depict a physical vector as an arrow.
Essentially, given a finite dimensional abstract vector space, a choice of a coordinate frame (which is really the same thing as a basis) sets up a linear bijection between the abstract vectors and listvectors, and makes it possible to represent the one in terms of the other.
Vectors are an essential scientific concept, indispensable for both the physicist and the mathematicians.
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