A-Level Maths OCR B (MEI) (H640)

Understand and use position vectors.

Including interpreting components of a position vector as the Cartesian coordinates of the point.

$\overrightarrow{AB} = \bold{b} - \bold{a}$

Notation:

• $\overrightarrow{OB}$ or $\bold{b}$
• $\bold{r} = \begin{pmatrix} x \\ y \end{pmatrix}$