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Activity No. 03 Vectors Objetives

This document provides information and exercises about vectors for a physics class. It introduces scalar and vector quantities, describes how to add and subtract vectors graphically, and defines components of vectors. It includes 6 exercises involving vector addition, subtraction, and determining magnitudes and directions using graphical representations and the component method. It also provides references for further reading on the topic of vectors in physics.

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Activity No. 03 Vectors Objetives

This document provides information and exercises about vectors for a physics class. It introduces scalar and vector quantities, describes how to add and subtract vectors graphically, and defines components of vectors. It includes 6 exercises involving vector addition, subtraction, and determining magnitudes and directions using graphical representations and the component method. It also provides references for further reading on the topic of vectors in physics.

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UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE

SCIENCE FACULTY
PHYSICS DEPARTAMENT
Asignature - Mechanics Physics
Teacher - Mario Alejandro Bernal Ortiz. MSc.

Activity No. 03
VECTORS

Objetives
• Understand the difference between a scalar quantity and a vector quantity, how to add and subtract vectors
graphically.
• Identify and interpret which are the components of a vector and how operations are performed between them.
• Identify a unit vector and how they are used with components to describe vectors.

• Practice multiplication of a scalar by a vector, dot product and cross product.


• Define vector spaces in R2 y R3

Comment
The development of the workshop is based on the concepts studied and acquired during the respective class session,
concepts documented in the class presentations that are attached in the virtual classroom. However, it will always
be important to reinforce the knowledge acquired by making use of different resources. In this sense, if your desire
is to delve into the subject, is suggested to review the book in the following link,
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/one-dimensional-motion/displacement-velocity-time/v/
introduction-to-vectors-and-scalars?modal=1

Exercises
1. Hearing the snake rattle, you make two rapid move-
ments of 1.8 m y 2.4 m. Make drawings (roughly to
scale) showing how such displacements could give
a resultant of magnitude a) 4.2 m, b) 0.6 m, c)
3.0 m.

2. A caver is exploring a cave and follows a passage


180 m to the west, then 210 m 45◦ east of south,
and after that 280 m 30◦ east of north. After a
fourth unmeasured displacement, it returns to the
starting point. ~ with the
4. Given the angle θ which forms a vector A
Using a scaled diagram, determine the fourth dis- axis +x, measured counterclockwise from that axis.
placement magnitude and direction. Check the Get the angle θ for a vector that has the following
graphical solution using the component method to components: a) Ax = 2.00 m, Ay = −1.00 m; b)
determine the fourth displacement magnitude and Ax = 2.00 m, Ay = 1.00 m; c) Ax = −2.00 m,
direction. Ay = 1.00 m; d) Ax = −2.00 m, Ay = −1.00 m.

5. The vector A~ has a direction of 34.0◦ clockwise from


axis −y. The component x de A ~ es Ax = −16.0 m.
3. With vectors A ~ yB ~ of figure, use a scale drawing ~ b) What is the
a) What is the component y of A?
to obtain the magnitude and direction of a) the ~
magnitude of A?. Now, the vector B ~ has a compo-
vector sum of A ~+B ~ and b) the difference A ~ − B.
~
nent By = 13.0 m, has an angle of 32.0◦ counter-
Based on your answers, determine the magnitude clockwise from axis +y. a) What is the component
and direction of c) −A ~−B ~ and d) B~ − B.
~ Check ~ b) What is the magnitude of B? ~
x of B?
the graphical solution using the component method
to determine the magnitude and direction of each 6. A disoriented physics teacher drives 3.25 km north,
above operation. 2.90 km west and 1.50 km south. Calculate the

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UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE
SCIENCE FACULTY
PHYSICS DEPARTAMENT
Asignature - Mechanics Physics
Teacher - Mario Alejandro Bernal Ortiz. MSc.

magnitude and direction of the resulting displace- ~−B


A ~ and show that your diagram qualitatively
ment, using the component method. On a vector matches your answer to part c).
summation diagram (roughly scaled), show that
the resulting displacement obtained qualitatively 9. Write each of the vectors in the figure in terms of
matches that obtained by the component method. the unit vectors ı y . b) Use unit vectors to ex-
press the vector C~ where C~ = 3.00A ~ − 4.00B~ c)
7. In a vertical plane, two ropes exert forces of equal Determine the magnitude and direction of C. ~
magnitude on a hanging weight, but pull at an an-
gle of 86.0◦ each. What pull does each string exert
if the resulting pull is 372 N straight up?

8. Given two vectors A ~ = 4.00ı + 7.00 and B ~ =


5.00ı − 2. a) calculate the magnitudes of each; b)
write an expression for A~ −B~ using unit vectors; c)
get the magnitude and direction of the difference
~ −B
A ~ d) Draw a vector diagram that shows A, ~ B,~

References
• Young H & Freedman R (2013). Fı́sica Universitaria de Sears y Z Zemansky. Ed Pearson México, 13a Ed Vol
1.

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