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VECTORS AND

VECTOR ADDITION
WHAT ARE VECTORS?

PHYSICAL QUANTITY

SCALAR QUANTITY VECTOR QUANTITY

Magnitude Magnitude
Unit Unit
Direction
SCALAR VS. VECTORS

SCALAR QUANTITY VECTOR QUANTITY

LENGTH
MASS DISPLACEMENT
TIME WEIGHT
SPEED FORCE
ENERGY VELOCITY
VOLUME ACCELERATION
AREA MOMENTUM
DENSITY DRAG
TEMPERATURE
Vector
Representation

Represented by an arrow

 Tail – indicates the starting point

 body - magnitude

 Arrowhead – end point (direction)


Vector
Representation
Resultant vector
The sum of two or more vectors
Vector addition
Process of combining or adding two or more vectors
Parallelogram Method
adding two vector
tail to tail method
Graphical method
• Uses scaling (scaling process helps you in cases where big magnitudes have to be
reduced to smaller units.

• The tail-head method of drawing the vector is one way of getting the resultant vector.
This is a way wherein the second vector is drawn such that its tail is connected to the
arrowhead of the first vector. The resultant is measured from the tail of the first vector to
the head of the second vector.
ADDITION OF VECTORS

⃗
𝐴
ADDITION OF VECTORS

⃗
𝐴

⃗
𝐴𝑦

⃗
𝐴𝑥
ADDITION OF VECTORS

II I

III IV
ADDITION OF VECTORS

II I

III IV
ADDITION OF VECTORS

⃗
𝐴

⃗
𝐴𝑦

⃗
𝐴𝑥
ADDITION OF VECTORS

Pythagorean
⃗
𝐴
Theorem
⃗
𝐴𝑦
⃗𝐴= √ ⃗
2 ⃗
𝐴 +𝐴
2
𝑥 𝑦
𝜃
⃗
𝐴𝑥
ADDITION OF VECTORS

⃗
𝐴𝑦
sin 𝜃=
⃗
𝐴
𝐴
⃗
𝐴𝑦 ⃗
𝐴𝑥
cos 𝜃 =
𝐴
𝜃
⃗
𝐴𝑥 ⃗
𝐴𝑦
tan 𝜃=
⃗
𝐴𝑥
ADDITION OF VECTORS

Click on the following link


to find the resultant
vector of a given vector or
set of vectors.
https://phet.colorado.edu/
sims/html/vector-addition/
latest/vector-addition_en.
html
PARALLELOGRAM

Ming walks 500 m East and


then turns 30 degrees East of
North and walks 300 m. Find
the resultant vector.
F1=230 N, 15° N of E
F2=180 N, SW
F3=400 N, E

Find the resultant force and


the direction of the force.

EXAMPLE
Four forces act on a coin resting on
the floor as shown in the figure below.
What is the sum of all the forces
acting on the coin and on what
direction will the coin move?

EXAMPLE
A car travels 300 km south, 150
km, 10°, west of south, 200 km,
northeast and finally, 120 km, 25°
north of east. What is the distance
between the initial and final
position of the car?

EXAMPLE
Find the resultant vector in the
following set of vectors.

d1=2 m, 30° south of east


d2=1.5 m, NW
d3=3 m, east
dr=?

EXAMPLE
Success is a special vector
quantity which needs a great
magnitude of your hardwork in
an appropriate direction with a
lot of patience.
-Shivansh Sagar

REMINDER

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