Force in Two and Three Dimensions
The Physics Hypertextbook™
© 1998-2008 by Glenn Elert -- A Work in Progress
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Discussion
Speak! Good Boy.
Summary
- Force is a vector quantity.
- Forces have direction and don't you ever forget that.
- Probably the best way to handle the vector nature of forces is to resolve them into components.
- Go easy on yourself. Pick the most convenient coordinate system.
Problems
practice
- Write something.
- Answer it.
- Write something else.
- Answer it.
- Write something different.
- Answer it.
- Write something completely different.
- Answer it.
numerical
- problems
Resources
- simulations
- Vector Jockey [exe], a very simple Windows application, but it illustrates Newton's first & second law in two dimensions quite well
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