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Vectors Supplement

1) The document defines key vector concepts like components, displacement, and distance. It provides examples of calculating displacements and components of vectors. 2) Example problems are given to demonstrate calculating the distance and direction a biker travels based on displacements, finding the x and y components of vectors, and calculating the displacement needed to find a buried pot of gold. 3) Unit vectors are introduced as a way to represent the direction of a vector using its magnitude and angle. An example problem demonstrates calculating the scalar product of two vectors to determine the angle between them.

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Vectors Supplement

1) The document defines key vector concepts like components, displacement, and distance. It provides examples of calculating displacements and components of vectors. 2) Example problems are given to demonstrate calculating the distance and direction a biker travels based on displacements, finding the x and y components of vectors, and calculating the displacement needed to find a buried pot of gold. 3) Unit vectors are introduced as a way to represent the direction of a vector using its magnitude and angle. An example problem demonstrates calculating the scalar product of two vectors to determine the angle between them.

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VECTORS

April Ulano
November 19, 2013
PSLH-B
Objectives
Differentiate scalar
quantity from vector
quantity
Define the components
of a vector and use
them in calculations
Solve vector related
problems graphically
and analytically

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AMUlano 2nd Sem AY 13-14 PHYS 3
Displacement vs
Distance

Displacement is
simply a change
in the position of
an object
Displacement
depends only on
the starting and
ending positions
not on the
path taken
Distance can
never be
negative and it
never decreases

AMUlano 2nd Sem AY 13-14 PHYS 3


4 EXAMPLE 1

A biker bikes 1.00 km north and then 2.00 km


east on a horizontal track. How far and in what
direction is she from the starting point?

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5 EXAMPLE 2

A. What are the x- and y-


components of vector D in the
figure? The magnitude of the
vector is D = 3.00 m, and the
angle = 45.

B. What are the x- and y-


components of vector E in the
figure? The magnitude of the
vector is E = 4.50 m, and the
angle = 37.0

AMUlano 2nd Sem AY 13-14 PHYS 3


6 EXAMPLE 3

Three players on the Amazing Race show are brought to the


center of a large, flat field. Each is given a meter stick, a
compass, a calculator, a shovel, and (in a different order for each
contestant) the following three displacements:

A =72.4 m , 32.0o east of north
0
B =57.3 m , 36.0 south of west
=17.8 m due south
C
The three displacements lead to the
point in the field where a pot of
gold is buried. Two players start
measuring immediately, but April
first calculates where to go. What
does she calculate?
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7 UNIT VECTORS

Scalar product of vectors


A and B

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8 UNIT VECTORS

Find the scalar product of the two vectors in the figure


below. The magnitudes of the vectors are A = 4.00 and
B = 5.00.

AMUlano 2nd Sem AY 13-14 PHYS 3


Reading
Assignment:
Motion in One
Dimension

(Serway pages 25
to 42)

AMUlano 2nd Sem AY 13-14 PHYS 3

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