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    A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. Vectors can be added geometrically by placing the tail of one vector at the head of another. The properties of vector addition include: vectors being commutative, the associative property, and vectors adding to zero when combined with their inverse. A vector can be resolved into components along perpendicular axes, with the x-component being the projection on the x-axis and y-component the projection on the y-axis. These components and the overall vector magnitude and direction can be calculated using trigonometric functions.

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    A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. Vectors can be added geometrically by placing the tail of one vector at the head of another. The properties of vector addition include: vectors being commutative, the associative property, and vectors adding to zero when combined with their inverse. A vector can be resolved into components along perpendicular axes, with the x-component being the projection on the x-axis and y-component the projection on the y-axis. These components and the overall vector magnitude and direction can be calculated using trigonometric functions.

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    A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. Vectors can be added geometrically by placing the tail of one vector at the head of another. The properties of vector addition include: vectors being commutative, the associative property, and vectors adding to zero when combined with their inverse. A vector can be resolved into components along perpendicular axes, with the x-component being the projection on the x-axis and y-component the projection on the y-axis. These components and the overall vector magnitude and direction can be calculated using trigonometric functions.

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    vectors
    Introduction
    A vector quantity is a quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction and
    thus can be represnted with a vector.
    A vector can be shifted w/o changing its value if its length and direction are not
    changed.
    Displacement vectors represeent onlly the overall effect of the motion, not the
    motion itself.

    vector representation

    fig 1

    Adding Vectors Geometrically


    vector addition

    vectors 1
    fig 2

    AB + BC = AC

    AC is the vector sum (resultant) of the vectors AB and BC.


    Vector additon - Properties

    a + b = b + a

    (a + b )+ c = a +(b + c )

    b + (− b ) = 0

    d = a − b = a + (− b )

    ⇒ we an add only vectors of the same kind. For example, we add two
    displacements, or two velocities, but adding a displacement and velocity makes
    no sense.

    Components of Vectors
    A component of a vector is the projection of the vector on an axis.

    The projection of a vector on an x axis is its x component, and similarly the


    projection on the y axis is the y component. The process of finfing the

    vectors 2
    components of a vector is called resolving the vector. A component of a
    vector has the same direction (along an axis) as the vector.

    fig 3

    we can find the components of a in fig 3 geometrically from the right


    triangle there

    ax = acosθ and ay = asinθ

    If we know a vector in component notation (ax and ay ) and want it in


    magnitude-angle notation (a and θ), we can use the equations to tranfrom it.
    ay
    a= a2x + a2y and tanθ =
    ax

    Horizontal Components:

    refer fig 3 for representation


    The team's horizontal displacement forms the hypotenuse of the triangle, and
    its magnitude dh is given by the pythagoras theorem.

    representation

    vectors 3
    Overall Displacement

    the vertical component and the horizontal displacement dh from the legs of
    another right angle. Now the team's overall displacement forms the
    hypotenuse of that triangle with a magnitude d

    vectors 4

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