Warm up The Spurs coyote shoots a t-shirt out of his t-shirt cannon straight up into the air. If you record the total time it is up in the air to be 3.6 s. How high did it go?
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Physics Honors A/B –Day 09/28/15 Vectors and intro to 2-D Motion
Agenda Vectors Lab
Vectors Remember a vector has both magnitude and direction Examples Displacement Velocity Acceleration Symbolized by an arrow on top of a letter Boldface in the book
Vectors
Vector Addition Graphically Vectors can be added together
Vector Addition by Components In problems we will break vectors into components
Vector Addition by Components How do you break a vector into components
Vector Addition by Components How do you break a vector into components
Vector Addition by Components In problems we will break vectors into components
Vector Addition by Components In problems we will break vectors into components c
Vector Addition by Components In problems we will break vectors into components
Example
A football player runs directly down the field for 15 m before turning to the right at an angle of 25º from his original direction and running an additional 25 m before getting tackled. What is the magnitude and direction of the runner’s total displacement?