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Chapter 4: Vector Addition

Homeward BoundA GPS receiver told you that your home km at a direction of40 north of west, but theonly path led directlynorth. If you took thatpath and walked 10 km,how far and in whatdirection would you thenhave to walk in a straightline to reach your home? Look at the ExampleProblem on page 75for the AdditionWHAT YOU LL LEARN You will represent vectorquantities graphically andalgebraically. You will determine the sumof vectors both graphicallyand IT S IMPORTANT Airplane pilots would find itdifficult or impossible tolocate their intended airportor estimate their time ofarrival without taking intoaccount the vectors thatdescribe both the plane svelocity with respect to theair and the velocity of the air (winds) with respect tothe find out more about vectors, visit the Glencoe Science Web site at , after hours of hiking and clambering up rocks, you vereached your destination. The scene you have been antici-pating unfolds before you.

vector, and the arrow points in the specified direction of the vector. In printed materials, an algebraic representation of a vector is often used. This representation is an italicized letter in boldface t ype. For exam-ple, a displacement can be represented by the expression d 50 km, southwest. d 50 km designates only the magnitude of the vector.

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