Scalars & Vectors is a fundamental physics topic for the JEE Examination. This topic is a part of a larger topic “Kinematics” in NCERT textbooks. This topic is also one of the easiest topics for JEE Physics.
Weightage & Importance
You can expect 1 or 2 questions from Scalars & Vectors in the JEE Exam. However, the topic is fundamental as the concept of Scalars & Vectors is used in almost all topics of Physics. Thus, this topic is one of the first topics that a JEE aspirant should study and prepare.
Syllabus & Topics
As per the NTA website, the topics under Scalars & Vectors are:
- Scalars and Vectors, Vector. Addition and subtraction, scalar and vector products, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector.
How to study Scalars & Vectors?
Let us simplify and organise the above topics to understand how to prepare this chapter for JEE.
Here is a simplified view of the topics:
Theory Topics:
- Scalar & Vector Quantities, Types of Vectors – Unit Vectors, Displacement Vectors, Position Vectors, Vector Notations.
- Vector Calculations: Equality, Addition, Subtraction & Multiplication of Vectors. Triangle & Parallelogram Law of Vectors.
- Vector Multiplication: Scalar & Vector Product.
- Resolution of Vectors
Numerical Questions:
- Vector Addition & Subtraction
- Triangle & Parallelogram Law of Vectors
- Scalar & Vector Product of Vectors
- Resolution of Vectors
The Theory topics can be studied easily through the NCERT textbook (ebook available online) alone. Once you have studied and understood theory topics, you can move to numerical questions. For the JEE Examination, numerical questions are very important and most likely numerical questions will be asked in the JEE Examination.
The numerical topics are not very difficult and can be studied using our free online learning tools. Click on the links above to access these tools.
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