Classical Mechanics — Review: Vectors

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructors: Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic
Term: Fall 2016
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 6 videos
Materials open: Videos here · files on MIT OCW

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Classical Mechanics — Review: Vectors

0.1 Vectors vs. Scalars

0.2 Vector Operators

0.3 Coordinate Systems and Unit Vectors

0.4 Vectors - Magnitude and Direction

0.5 Vector Decomposition into Components

0.6 Going Between Representations