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Vector Labeling Convention: Vxi or Vix?
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[QUOTE="jtbell, post: 6071080, member: 20524"] Is this for an introductory physics course, where we deal with vectors for physical quantities in a rectangular 3-dimensional space (x,y,z directions)? Or is it for e.g. a linear algebra course where vectors are more abstract things, in an abstract space with an arbitrary number of dimensions? If this is a physics context, I put the vector label or number first, followed by the component label, so vectors ##\vec v_i## (i = initial) and ##\vec v_f## (f = final) have components ##(v_{ix}, v_{iy}, v_{iz})## and ##(v_{fx}, v_{fy}, v_{fz})## respectively. (Aha, now I see this is in the General Physics forum, so I suspect this is indeed a physics context. I originally came to this question via the "Unanswered Questions" section on the home page.) [/QUOTE]
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