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Laboratory Experiment No.

1
VECTOR ADDITION

I. OBJECTIVES:

To be able to plot, analyze, compute for the resultant of several vectors.

II. THEORY:

Vectors are physical quantities completely specified by both magnitude and


direction. Two or more vectors can be added to give a single effect known as the
resultant. The resultant obeys the addition law or the parallelogram law of
addition. This experiment will use the parallelogram law of addition to find the
resultant and the resultant obtained will be compared to the resultant using the
component method.

III. MATERIALS:

Protractor, pencil, graphing papers and ruler.

IV. DRAWING:

V. PROCEDURES:

1. Each group is assigned a set of several vectors; add these vectors using the
polygon method using a convenient scale.
2. Using a graphing paper draw the rectangular coordinates and plot vector A
using a protractor and a ruler.
3. From the tip of vector A draw an arrowhead representing the direction. Write
down the magnitude and direction of the vector you just drawn beside it.

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4. From the tip of vector A, draw again the rectangular coordinates ( x and y axes)
and plot vector B.
5. Repeat procedures 2 and 3 until you have plotted the last vector.
6. From the tip of the last vector, draw a line towards the origin, placing the
arrowhead opposite the direction of the last vector and label the line as the
Resultant (R).
7. Measure the resultant R with your ruler representing the magnitude and
measure the angle made with respect to the x –axis representing the direction.
8. For the component method plot all the vectors in the rectangular coordinates
and resolve the vectors in their x and y components.
9. Sum all the x-components and also the y-components.
10. Solve for the resultant using the Pythagorean theorem and the angle 0 using
your trigonometric function.
11. Compute for the per cent of error using this formula:

Theoretical α − Experimental α
Percent of Error ( in %) = X 100%
Theoretical α

VI. DATA AND RESULT:

Table 1.

Vector Magnitude Direction


A 13 m/s East
B 12 m/s 30º NE
C 14 m/s 50º NW
D 10 m/s East
E 8 m/s North

Table 2.

Polygon Method Polygon Method


Percent of Error %
(Experimental) (Theoretical)

Resultant

Angle θ

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COMPUTATION:

GRAPH:

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Component Method:

Vector X- Y-
component component
A
B
C
D
E

Summation
Σ=

2. Percent of Error (R) =

3. Percent of error (θ) =

VII. QUESTION AND PROBLEM

1. A plane flies due east, a distance of 250 km. It then proceed 25 o NW, a distance
of 600 km. What is the resultant displacement from the starting point?

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2. Using the polygon method find the resultant of the following displacements, 6
m southwest, 10 m northeast, 4 m southeast, 12 m northwest and 3 m southwest.
What is the direction of the resultant displacement? b) Check using the component
method.

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VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND GENERALIZATION

IX. RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

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