Saturday, June 16, 2007

Vector Addition - Component Method

1. Draw the vectors to be added.
2. Resolve each vector into it's "x" and "y" components.
-Ax = A cosine Ø, and, Ay = A sine Ø, where A is the vector, and Ø is the vector's angle.
3. Sum all the x and y-components to find Rx, and Ry vectors.
4. Recombine Rx and Ry to obtain the resultant vector using the phytagorean theorem

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