Vector components are perpendicular vectors that combine to give one resultant vector. In two-dimensional kinematics, horizontal and vertical components allow one motion to be analysed with two linked one-dimensional models.
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Vector Components
Vector components are perpendicular vectors that combine to give one resultant vector. In two-dimensional kinematics, horizontal and vertical components allow one motion to be analysed with two linked one-dimensional models.
- Treating component magnitudes as automatically positive in a signed equation.
- Using sine and cosine without checking where the angle is measured.
- Adding perpendicular component magnitudes arithmetically.
- Calculating a reference angle without checking the quadrant.
- Giving the two component models different times.
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