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How do you use the parallelogram method to add more than two vectors?
Use the parallelogram method to add two of the vectors to create a single vector for them;Now use this vector with another of the vectors to be added (using the parallelogram method to create another vector).Repeat until all the vectors have been added.For example, if you have to add V1, V2, V3, V4 do:Used method to add V1 and V2 to result in R1Use method to add R1 and V3 to result in R2Use method to add R2 and V4 to give final resulting vector R.
How does one add vectors?
Either graphically, or with math. Graphically: Put them one after another, head to tail. With math: Each component must be separated into components. Add the components separately, for example, the x-component and the y-component.
What must you do to non-perpendicular vectors before you can use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the resultant of the vectors?
You must find the x and y components of each vector. Then you add up the like x components and the like y components. Using your total x component and total y component you may then apply the pythagorean theorem.
Writing vectors in unit vector notation?
Notation in which you express the x component as i and the y component as j, and you add them. Ex. V (4,5) --> V (4i + 5j)
Is it possible to add three vectors of equal magnitude but different directions to get a null vectors?
yes, as long as they have 120 degrees separating them from each other, (360/3). all vectors must have total x and y component values of 0.
