Tag: Components
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Chapter 11: Projectile Motion
11.1 Introduction to Projectile Motion Projectile motion is a fundamental concept in physics that deals with the motion of an object under the influence of gravity while experiencing no other forces once set in motion. This type of motion is very familiar to us all as we often observe it in everyday life. Shooting a…
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Chapter 3: Vector Components
3.1 Introduction It is often necessary to break a vector into its components. In the cartesian coordinate system, this would mean breaking the vector into an x-component and a y-component. Figure 1 below demonstrates that there are generally two ways to do this as represented by the two different right triangles. It is important to…