1st year of post-compulsory secondary education
Movement (I)
C. Palacios
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1.2 Coordinate axes are a reference system

Here you have two systems of Cartesian coordinate axes. They are usually used to situate the Reference system at its origin. 
You can imagine that the eye in the previous visual is situated at the point (0,0)

     

 

 

Move the brown circles and observe how the position of a point and of a vector are determined.

The reference systems do not have to be at the bottom of the page.  Foll. page

Two coordinates or components: a vector on the plane
Two coordinates at a point on a plane
Reference System
What is it?
Coordinate axes
A Moving R.S.
Sun-Earth-Moon
Trajectory and Displacement
Position and Trajectory
The Equation of Motion
Displacement
Average velocity and instantaneous velocity
Average velocity
Instantaneous velocity
Evaluation