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Examples of vector are:
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displacement, velocity, and acceleration
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Examples of scalar are
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speed,temperature,masses, time intervals,number of pages
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What two methods are used to add vectors?
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1. triangle method of addition
2. parallelogram method of addition |
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Define: triangle method
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the two vectors are drawn to scale on graph paper with the tail of the second vector located at the tip of the first
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Define:
Parallelogram Method |
the vectors are drawn to scale on graph paper with the tails of the two vectors joined
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Define:
Resultant Vector |
the vector drawn from the tail of the first to the tip of the second
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Define:
Negative of a vector A |
is a vector that has the same magnitude as A but it is pointing in the opposite direction
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Define:
projectile motion |
an object moving above the Earth's surface in both the x and y direction simultaneously
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