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VECTOR ADDITION

1. A man walks 2.6 miles east then turns and walks 6.7 miles north. Where is he
in relation to his starting point?
2. A plane is flying west at 210 m/s with a crosswind blowing south at 85 m/s.
What is the resultant velocity of the plane?
3. A family drives 63.6 miles west and 11.2 miles south. What is their resultant
displacement?
4. A boat crosses a river at 6.65 mph north through a current going 9.87 mph
east. What is the resultant velocity of the boat?
5. A plane flies 226 m/s west with a crosswind blowing 142 m/s north. What is
the resultant velocity of the plane?
6. A woman runs 4.5 miles south and 3.7 miles east. What is her resultant
displacement?
7. A boat is heading across a river at a velocity of 25 mph. The river is flowing
downstream at 10 mph. What is the actual velocity of the boat?
8. An airplane is flying 340 km/hr at 12o East of North. The wind is blowing 40
km/hr at 34o South of East. What is the planes actual velocity?
9. You are on an elevator that is plummeting toward the ground at 30 m/s and
you jump up right before it hits the ground. You jump upward with a velocity
of 5 m/s. At what speed do you hit the ground.
10.You push on a box with a force of 500 Newtons directly north. Another
person pushes the box with a force of 800 Newtons directly east. What is
the resultant force?
11.Find


= A + B , given that

30 above the positive x-axis and

has magnitude 4 and is at an angle of

has magnitude 2 and is at an angle of

85 above the positive x-axis


12.Your uncle Mikes boat can travel 4.0 m/s in still
water. One sunny afternoon, you and Unk Mike
decide to go fishing. While waiting for a bite, you
begin thinking, If this river is flowing at 5.5 m/s
southward, and we are heading eastward,
directly across the river, what are the direction
and magnitude of our total velocity?
13.The figure above shows three ropes tied together
in a knot. One of your friends pulls on a rope with
a force of 3 Newtons and another pulls on a second rope with a force of 5
Newtons. How hard and in what direction must you pull on the third rope to
keep the knot from moving?
14.Two forces with magnitudes of 15 pounds and 10 pounds are applied to an
object. The magnitude of the resultant is 24 pounds. Find the measurement of
the angle between the resultant vector and the vector of the 10 pound force
to the nearest whole degree.
15.Use vectors to answer the following questions.
a) If two forces from different directions are applied to an object, can
the magnitude of the resultant be larger than the sum of the magnitudes of
the forces? Justify your answer.

VECTOR ADDITION
b) What if the forces were from the same direction? Justify your answer.

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