Name: Acejo, Yla Mae B.
Problem on Adding Vectors During a university's founding anniversary parade, a pair of students
is carrying a banner as they walk from an annex to the grandstand. They experience two forces
while carrying the banner: one force in the horizontal direction (x-direction) and one force in the
vertical direction (y-direction).
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The students exert a horizontal force of 100 N to move the banner forward.
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The gravitational force acts vertically downward on the banner with a magnitude of 50 N.
The gravitational force acts vertically downward on the banner with a magnitude of 50 N.
Magnitude: sqrt of 100 squared plus -50 squared
= 111.8 N
Direction: tan inverse |-50/ 100| = -26.56 degrees (measured downward from
the positive x-axis)