3. Addition and subtraction of vectors
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Because non-zero vectors have direction as well as magnitude, adding vectors involves more than simply adding numbers. The sum of two vectors is another vector, and so the definition of addition must give a process for determining both the magnitude and the direction of the sum vector. There are two equivalent procedures for addition of vectors, called the parallelogram rule and the triangle rule.
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