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Vectors Addition and Resolution

This document discusses vectors, including addition and resolution of vectors. It provides examples of scalar and vector quantities and explains how to resolve vectors into horizontal and vertical components. It then gives practice problems involving resolving vectors and calculating displacements, speeds, velocities, accelerations, and forces for objects moving in two dimensions.

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Vectors Addition and Resolution

This document discusses vectors, including addition and resolution of vectors. It provides examples of scalar and vector quantities and explains how to resolve vectors into horizontal and vertical components. It then gives practice problems involving resolving vectors and calculating displacements, speeds, velocities, accelerations, and forces for objects moving in two dimensions.

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Ayesha Maryam
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• Vectors
addition and
resolution
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Vector vs. scalar
Scalar quantities have size (“magnitude”) only and no direction.
Vector quantities have both size and direction.

Scalar or vector???

Scalar 8. Power Vector


2. Distance12. Acceleration
1. Mass
6. Energy
7. Time
3. Displacement
4. Speed
11. Force 10. Current
5. Velocity
9. Momentum
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Vectors
10km

10km
14.1km

100ms-1

5ms-1
100.1ms-1
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Resolving Vectors
Consider a diagonal push:

This force is given by:

F1 = F sin θ
F
F1
θ
F2

This force is given by:

F2 = F cos θ
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Resolving Vectors – example questions
Calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the
following:
1) 2)
10N 20N
35O
50O

Work out the size and direction of the resultant force:


3) 4)
20N
8N 15N
10N
50O 45O
80O 30O
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More Questions
1) Joe hikes 5km north and then 9km east. This journey
takes him 2 hours. Draw, on graph paper, a scale diagram
to show this movement and calculate:
1) The displacement at the end of the journey
2) His average speed
3) His average velocity

2) An aeroplane takes off with a velocity of 110ms-1 at an


angle of 25O to the horizontal runway. Calculate the
horizontal and vertical components of the plane’s velocity.

3) A coin is flicked off a table with a horizontal speed of


2ms-1. Calculate its new speed 1 second later.
Drawing Vectors
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Resolving Force Vectors
Another guy is dragging a 1.5kg box
along the ground with a force of 20N.
The block is stuck in a groove and can’t
move upwards. If the block accelerates
from rest to 10ms-1 in 5s calculate: 200

1) The block’s acceleration

2) The size of the resultant force on


the block

3) The size of the frictional force on


the block

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