Parallelogram (or Triangle) Law of addition of vectors.
Also see other figures under the “vectors” tag: the scalar product, right-hand rule, or the divergence and curl of vector fields.
Edit and compile if you like:
% Author: Izaak Neutelings (September 2020) \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{physics} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \tikzset{>=latex} % for LaTeX arrow head \usepackage{xcolor} \colorlet{veccol}{green!45!black} \colorlet{myred}{red!90!black} \colorlet{myblue}{blue!90!black} \colorlet{mypurple}{blue!50!red!80!black!80} \tikzstyle{vector}=[->,very thick,veccol] \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \tikzstyle{thin arrow}=[dashed,thin,-{Latex[length=4,width=3]}] \begin{document} % TWO VECTORS SUM \begin{tikzpicture}[line cap=round] \coordinate (O) at (0,0); \coordinate (A) at ( -3:2.1); \coordinate (B) at ( 55:1.4); \coordinate (A+B) at ($(A)+(B)$); \draw[vector,thin arrow,myred!40] (B) -- (A+B) node[midway,above] {$\vb{a}$}; \draw[vector,thin arrow,myblue!40] (A) -- (A+B) node[midway,below right=-2] {$\vb{b}$}; \draw[vector,myred] (O) -- (A) node[midway,below] {$\vb{a}$}; \draw[vector,myblue] (O) -- (B) node[midway,above left=-2] {$\vb{b}$}; \draw[vector,mypurple] (O) -- (A+B) node[above right=-3] {$\vb{a}+\vb{b}$}; \end{tikzpicture} % VECTORS \begin{tikzpicture}[line cap=round] \coordinate (O) at (0,0); \coordinate (A) at ( -5:2.1); \coordinate (B) at ( 55:1.4); \coordinate (C) at (130:1.2); \coordinate (D) at (210:2.0); \draw[vector,myred] (O) -- (A) node[right=-2] {$\vb{a}$}; \draw[vector,myblue] (O) -- (B) node[above right=-3] {$\vb{b}$}; \draw[vector,green!50!black] (O) -- (C) node[above left=-3] {$\vb{c}$}; \draw[vector,orange!90!black] (O) -- (D) node[left=-1] {$\vb{d}$}; \end{tikzpicture} % VECTOR SUM \begin{tikzpicture}[line cap=round] \draw[vector,myred] (O) -- (A) node[below left=0] {$\vb{a}$}; \draw[vector,myblue] (A) --++ (B) node[below right=-3] {$\vb{b}$}; \draw[vector,green!50!black] (A)++(B) --++ (C) node[above=1,right=2] {$\vb{c}$}; \draw[vector,orange!90!black] (A)++(B)++(C) --++ (D) node[above=2] {$\vb{d}$}; \draw[vector,<-,blue!50!black] (A)++(B)++(C)++(D) -- (O) node[midway,left=1,scale=0.9] {$\vb{a}+\vb{b}+\vb{c}+\vb{d}$}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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