Physics Test: Vectors

Front 1

What is Distance?

Back 1

How far an object has travled

Front 2

What is Displacement?

Back 2

How far an object has gone in a certain direction

Front 3

What is a vector?

Back 3

has magnitutde( amount) and a direction

Front 4

What is a scaler?

Back 4

has magnitude(amount)

Front 5

Give the examples of scalers?

Back 5

Mass, Weight, Volume, Density, Distance, Speed

Front 6

Give the examples of vectors?

Back 6

Force, Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration

Front 7

What is Velocity?

Back 7

Speed with Direction

Front 8

What is Acceleration?

Back 8

The change in velocity

Front 9

When two or more vectors act on the same object, we can add the two vectors to find ______

Back 9

The resultant

Front 10

Name the three steps to add adding 2 or more vectors
Tip to Tail Meathod

Back 10

1. Draw one of the vectors
2. Where the first vector ends, begin drawing the second vectors
3. The resultant is from the beginning of the first vector to the end of the last vector

Front 11

Vectors can be added _____ and _______

Back 11

Graphically and Mathmatically

Front 12

How do you add vectors graphically?

Back 12

By constructing a triangle the measure the length and direction to the same sale

Front 13

How do you add vectors mathmatically?

Back 13

By constructing a triangle and solving using mathmatical procedures. Ex. Law of Cosines

Front 14

We can ____ a single vector into 2 ______

Back 14

Resolve and Components

Front 15

We can add any number of vectors by

Back 15

1. Resolve each vector into its x and y components
2. Add all the X and Y components to find the X total and Y total
3. Add the x vector total and the y vector total to get the resultant

Front 16

What is the law of cosines?

Back 16

a^2 = b^2 + c^2 - 2bc x cosA