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"What's Your Vector, Victor?" Potpourri
100
The method for how vectors are added graphically in a scale drawing
What is tip to tail
100
When vectors act perpendicularly and the resultant is drawn, this shape is formed.
What is a right triangle?
100
The net force produced by two forces acting 3 N due East, and 8 N due West
What is 5 N due West?
100
Two people are pushing a box. Person A pushes with 100 N of force due East. Person B pushes with 80 N of force due East. The overall force is.....
What is 180 N East?
100
Find the cosine of 30 degrees.
What is 0.866?
200
The name for the vector which represents the sum, or addition, of two or more vectors.
What is the resultant?
200
The function used to find the measure of an angle if the adjacent side and the hypotenuse of a right triangle are known.
What is Cosine?
200
The net force produced by vectors of 10 N due North, 10 N due East, 10 N due West, and 10 N due South.
What is 0 N?
200
The magnitude and direction of a plane flying 400 km/hr due North with a 45 km/hr crosswind blowing due East is....
What is 402.5 km/hr 6.4 degrees East of North?
200
The angle associated with Tangent theta = 57.3
What is 89 degrees?
300
This does not matter when adding vectors.
What is the order in which they are added?
300
The function used to find the measure of an angle if the opposite side and the hypotenuse of a right triangle are known.
What is Sine?
300
A right triangle has a resultant of 20 N at an angle of 32 degrees to a table top. Find the Ry value.
What is 10.6 N?
300
A boat heads directly across a stream with a velocity of 10 m/s. The stream flows due East at 5 m/s. What is the velocity of the boat with the stream influencing it, and at what direction should the captain aim the boat to cross the stream as planned?
What is 11.2 m/s at a heading of 26.6 degrees West of North in order to go directly across.
300
This angle and direction can also be written as 315 degrees.
What is 45 degrees South of East, or 45 degrees East of South?
400
The two qualities of a vector that must not be changed when adding them together.
What is the magnitude and direction?
400
The function used to find the measure of an angle if the two legs of a right triangle are known.
What is Tangent?
400
A right triangle has a resultant of 45 N at an angle of 10 degrees to the table top. Find the Rx value.
What is 44.3 N?
400
The resultant of a right triangle is 35 lbs. The angle is 26 degrees. Find the Rx and Ry components.
What is Rx = 31.5 lbs and Ry = 15.3 lbs?
400
Create a scale drawing of the following to find the resultant: 30 lbs due North and 50 lbs due East.
What is 60 lbs. 30 degrees North of East?
500
What 65 mph or 30 degrees Fahrenheit represents in terms of a definition, as compared to 30 m/s 20 degrees North of East, or 55 mph due West.
What is a scalar quantity?
500
The name of the method of using x- and y- directions of motion to determine an overall vector.
What is the Component Method?
500
The Rx vector is 6 due East and the Ry vector is 12 due North. What is the angle measured in degrees & direction?
What is 63 degrees N of E.
500
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 22 dynes. The Ry value is 6 dynes. Find the Rx value and the angle with direction.
What is 21.2 dynes at 15.8 degrees North of East?
500
Create a scale drawing of the following to determine the resultant: 200 N 30 degrees North of East, 200 N 30 degrees South of East, and 150 N due East.
What is 500 N due East?