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    Vectors represent physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction. To add vectors, their tails are placed tip-to-tip using the tail-to-tip method to determine the resulting vector. For example, if someone hiked 11 km north and then 11 km east, their total displacement can be found by drawing the first vector north, placing the tail of the second vector at the tip of the first and drawing it east, with the resulting vector running from the tail of the first to the tip of the second. The Pythagorean theorem can also be used to determine the resulting vector when adding two vectors.

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    Vectors represent physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction. To add vectors, their tails are placed tip-to-tip using the tail-to-tip method to determine the resulting vector. For example, if someone hiked 11 km north and then 11 km east, their total displacement can be found by drawing the first vector north, placing the tail of the second vector at the tip of the first and drawing it east, with the resulting vector running from the tail of the first to the tip of the second. The Pythagorean theorem can also be used to determine the resulting vector when adding two vectors.

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    ADDITION OF

    VECTORS

    Jun Min Xu
    Cheng Wang

    What is Vector
    A vector can stands for a lot of quantity.
    In physics, a vector quantity usually stands for a
    quantity has direction as well as magnitude.

    Example:Displacement,velocity,acceleration,andforce.

    Two vectors can be added together to determine


    the result, as the quantities that have direction as
    well as magnitude, they must be added in a
    special way.

    We use tail-to-tip method of adding vectors to do


    the addition of vectors.

    How do we add vectors?


    On a diagram, draw one of the vectors-call it to
    scale.

    Next draw the second vector, , placing its tail at


    the tip of the first vector and being sure its
    direction is correct.

    The arrow drawn from the tail of the first vector


    to the tip of the second vector represents the
    sum, or resultant, of the two vectors.

    Example:
    Eric leaves the base camp and hikes 11 km, north
    and then hikes 11 km east. Determine Eric's
    resulting displacement.

    We can use the Pythagorean theorem is a useful


    method for determining the result of adding two
    vectors.

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