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Motion in A Plane
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Explain and derive parallelogram law of vector additor.

Answer

The parallelogram law of vector addition states that if two vectorsare represented by the two adjacent sides of a parallelogram by both magnitude and direction from a point, then their resultant can be represented by the diagonal of the parallelogramfrom the same point.

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Some More Questions From Motion in A Plane Chapter

What are the basic characteristics that a quantity must possess so that it may be a vector quantity?

Is a physical quantity, having a direction, necessarily a vector?

Name a quantity which is both scalar as well as vector.

Which of the followings is/are vector quantities: work, power, acceleration, mass, momentum?

Pick up the odd one from the following: force, linear momentum, mass, impulse.

Pick out the only vector quantities in the following list:
Temperature, pressure, impulse, time, power, total path length, energy, gravitational potential, coefficient of friction and charge.

Pick out the two scalar quantities in the following list:
force, angular momentum, work, current, linear momentum, electric field, average velocity, magnetic moment, reaction as per Newton’s third law, relative velocity.

What are polar vectors?

Give two examples of polar vectors.

What are axial vectors?