Thursday, September 11, 2014

vector problems to play with

1.  Find the resultant of these vectors:

a.  You ride your bike 12 km north, then 7 km east.  Find the displacement from your starting point (magnitude and angle).

b.  Two force vectors (100 N and 250 N) are separated by an angle of 40-degrees.  Find the resultant vector of these vectors added concurrently.

c.  If you have a stoplight weighing 75 pounds, hanging between 2 cables of equal length but separated by an angle of 100-degrees, what is the tension in each cable?

d.  Bonus, if you're interested.  In c above, show that the tension goes to infinity as the angle increases to 180-degrees (perfectly horizontal cable).

2.  Find the perpendicular components of a velocity vector (40 m/s, at 20-degrees with respect to horizontal).

3.  Add these three 3-d vectors together:

A = 4i + 6j - 10k
B = 2i - 15j + 32k
C = 11i + 8j - 16k

Also, find the magnitude of this new vector (A + B + C).

Finally, play around with Sketchup by next Wednesday.  If possible, create something and take a screen-shot of it to print and bring to class.

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