Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Objectives
To show how to add forces and resolve them into
components using the Parallelogram Law
To express force and position in Cartesian Vector
form and explain how to determine the vectors
magnitude and direction
To introduce the DOT PRODUCT in order to
determine the angle between vectors or the
projection of one vector onto another.
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Ch 2.3
EXAMPLE 2.2
EXAMPLE 2.6
EXAMPLE 2.7
A
cos
AX2
AX
; cos
A
AY2 AZ2
AY
; cos
A
AZ
A
Since the magnitude of a vector is equal to the +ve square root of the
sum of the squares of the magnitudes of its components, and uA has a
magnitude of 1, then an important relation between the direction
cosines can be derived as follows:
cos2 + cos2 +cos2 = 1
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Question: Show the relationship cos2 + cos2 +cos2 = 1
A = A xi + A yj + A zk
cos
AX
; cos
A
AY
; cos
A
AZ
A
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EXAMPLE 2.8
EXAMPLE 2.9
EXAMPLE 2.12
EXAMPLE 2.12
(continued)
EXAMPLE 2.12
(continued)
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EXAMPLE 2.16
EXAMPLE 2.16
(continued)
EXAMPLE 2.17
EXAMPLE 2.17
(continued)
EXAMPLE 2.17
(continued)