Direction angle of a vector

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Examples
  1. Determine the direction angle of the following vectors:
    1. p= \vec{p}= <6, 1>

    2. q= \vec{q}= <-1, 1>


    3. Direction angle of a vector


    4. Direction angle of a vector

Introduction to vectors
Notes
It should be clear by now that a quantity will not be considered a vector quantity if the magnitude or the direction is missing. In this section, we will shift our focus to learn how to indicate the direction of a vector.