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In this handout you practice skills such as adding two vectors, resolving a vector into two different components, finding the resultant force of two different forces acting at point, finding the magnitude and the direction angle of a given vector, and solving other applications from Physics such as displacement and velocity.
Vectors in Physics
Click
here for a detailed explanation of vectors and how they are applied in
physics.
This website has a link to an interactive page on
vectors and projectiles.
Introduction to vectors – Addition of vectors
Click
here to learn how to add vectors using the polygon method, parallelogram
method and the method of components. The website has a nice introduction of
vectors with worked examples. Applications of vectors from physics such as
force, distance, displacement, speed, force, mass problems can be found on the
website. Most of the worked examples are interactive.
Basic vector operations
Click
here to view a summary of the different ways vectors can be added or
resolved into horizontal or vertical components. The website contains some
interactive applets that will allow the user to resolve a vector into components
or find the magnitude and the direction angle if the vector’s components are
know.
More
application from Physics
Click
here for some more worked examples of vectors and their applications from
Physics.
Last Edits 12/2/05
Jeff Morford (Content by S. Bazzi)