GOOD

DAY!
☺
Vectors
 Vector and Scalar quantities

• Scalar quantities have size or magnitude,

but a direction is not specified.
(temperature, mass, speed, etc.)
• Vector quantities have magnitude and a
specific direction (velocity, acceleration,
etc.)
 The Resultant Vector
The resultant is a vector that represents
the sum of two or more vectors.
One way to find a resultant could be to draw the
situation to scale on paper (such as 50 m = 1 cm).
Measuring the length of the vector pointing from the
tail of the first vector to the head the second
vector, and then,
multiplying by the
scale .
For example if
line (c) is 3.0 cm
the distance would
be 150 meters.
This is the
displacement.
pg81 Physics Serway /Faugh (Holt)
An example of the head-to-tail
method of vector addition

The Physics Classroom.com

Using Pythagorean theorem to find
a resultants magnitude.
A toy car is moving directly across a moving
walkway. As the car moves in the y direction, the
walkway moves in the x direction.

Physics Serway /Faugh (Holt)

• We can look at the diagram as a triangle.
Therefore we can solve this by using the
Pythagorean theorem. Physics Serway /Faugh (Holt)
b

a
c
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING &

GOD BLESS!