March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 3m
English
A vector with a magnitude of 1 is a normal vector, sometimes called a unit vector. Whenever a vector has a length of 1, we can say that it has unit length. A normal vector is written as the letter of the vector with a caret symbol on top instead of an arrow,
. We can normalize any vector by dividing each of its components by the length of the vector:

We never implemented division operators for the vector class. We can rewrite the preceding equation as reciprocal multiplication. This means we can obtain the normal of a vector if we multiply ...
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