Vector Addition & Subtraction
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Solution: Given the vectors A and B shown in the figure, determine B - A. Determine A - B without using your answer in part A.
Problem
Given the vectors A and B shown in the figure, determine B - A. 
Determine A - B without using your answer in part A.
Practice Problems
Find A + B, given
A = 3i - 2j + 4k
B = -2i - 3j ...
If A = i - j + k and B = -3i + 5k, what is A - B?
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A car is driven 225 km west and then 78 km southwe...
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...
An explorer in Antarctica leaves his shelter durin...
A ship leaves the island of Guam and sails
285...
While following a treasure map, you start at an ol...
A fence post is
51.0 m from where you are st...
A 650-N force acts in a northwesterly direction.A ...
You are lost at night in a large, open field. Your...
You leave the airport in College Station and fly
...
Use vector components to find the magnitude of t...
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A spelunker is surveying a cave. She follows a pas...
On a training flight, a student pilot flies from L...
A dog in an open field runs 12.0 m east and then ...
shows vectors A and B.Find vector C such that ++=...
The helicopter view in Fig. P3.29 (page 74) shows ...
Vector A S has x and y components of 28.70 cm and ...
You are given a vector in the xy plane that has a ...
A man pushing a mop across a floor causes it to un...
Vector A S has a magnitude of 29 units and points ...
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Two dogs pull horizontally on ropes attached to a ...
Workmen are trying to free an SUV stuck in the mud...
Two snowcats in Antarctica are towing a housing un...
In Figure P3.55 a spider is resting after starting...
The figure shows four electrical charges located a...
Two ropes in a vertical plane exert equal-magnitud...
Two workers pull horizontally on a heavy box, but ...
A patient with a dislocated shoulder is put into a...
Vector vec{A} has components Ax=
1.45 cm , Ay=
...
For the vectors A and B in the figure , use a scal...
Two vectors A S and B S have precisely equal magni...
Two vectors A S and B S have precisely equal magni...
A patient in therapy has a forearm that weighs 23....
Figure OQ3.3 shows two vectors D S 1 and D S 2. Wh...
The magnitude of vector A S is 8 km and the magnit...
Find C = A + B.Find D = A - B.
Find C = A + B.Find D = A - B.
A force F S 1 of magnitude 6.00 units acts on an o...
Two vectors have length exttip{V_{1}}{V_1} = 3.3 ...
You may want to review (Pages 14 - 18).
For rela...
Vector A is 2.80 cm
long and is 60.0B
above ...
Given the vectors A and B shown in the figure, det...
Determine the vector A - C, given the vectors A an...
For the vectors shown in , determine B - 2A.Captio...
The figure shows vectors exttip{vec{A}}{A_vec} an...
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