Mission VP4: Adding Right Angle Vectors

Mission VP4 requires that you add two vectors that are at right angles to each other in order to determine the magnitude and the direction of the resultant. The mission consists of 27 questions organized into 9 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...

 

Learning Outcomes

• The student should be able to use the Pythagorean theorem to add two or more vectors in order to determine the magnitude of the resultant.
• The student should be able to trigonometric principles to add two or more vectors in order to determine the direction of the resultant.

 

Launch Mission VP4

 

Getting Help

If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
 

The Physics Classroom, Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions Unit, Lesson 1, Part a

The Physics Classroom, Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions Unit, Lesson 1, Part b

The Physics Classroom, Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions Unit, Lesson 1, Part c
 

• How can the Pythagorean theorem be used to determine the magnitude of the resultant of two right angle vectors?
• How can the trigonometric functions be used to determine the direction of the resultant of two right angle vectors?
• How can the counter-clockwise from East convention be used to determine the direction of a vector?

 

Video Tutorials:

Adding Right-Angle Vectors

  


 

 

Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: