Tutorial 1 SFT3033

1. Starting with the definition 1 in. = 2.54 cm, find the number of

a. kilometers in 1.00 mile and

b. feet in 1.00 km.

2. How many nanoseconds does it take light to travel 1.00 ft in vacuum?

3. Hearing rattles from a snake, you make two rapid displacements of magnitude 1.8 m
and 2.4 m. In sketches (roughly to scale), show how your two displacements might add
up to give a resultant of magnitude

a. 4.2 m;
b. 0.6 m;
c. 3.0 m.

4. Vector A is in the direction 34.0° clockwise from the -y-axis. The x-component of A is
Ax = -16.0 m.

a. What is the y-component of A?

b. What is the magnitude of A?

5. Two ropes in a vertical plane exert equal-magnitude forces on a hanging weight but
pull with an angle of 86.0° between them. What pull does each one exert if their
resultant pull is 372 N directly upward?
6. For the vectors 𝐴⃗, 𝐵
$⃗ , and 𝐶⃗ in Fig. 1, find the scalar products

a. 𝐴⃗ ∙ 𝐵
$⃗ ,
$⃗ ∙ 𝐶⃗ ;
b. 𝐵
c. 𝐴⃗ ∙ 𝐶⃗
7. Given two vectors A = -2.00i + 3.00j + 4.00k and B= 3.00i +1.00j - 3.00k, do the
following.

a. Find the magnitude of each vector.

b. Write an expression for the vector difference A - B using unit vectors.
c. Find the magnitude of the vector difference A - B. Is this the same as the
magnitude of B - A? Explain.

8. Two workers pull horizontally on a heavy box, but one pulls twice as hard as the other.
The larger pull is directed at 25.0° west of north, and the resultant of these two pulls
is 460.0 N directly northward. Use vector components to find the magnitude of each
of these pulls and the direction of the smaller pull.