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janelavis
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 « Embed this message Reply #30 on: September 22, 2009, 01:50:31 pm » posted from:Phagwara,Punjab,India

I think that you need to think a little more about the design of your Vector class. You need to decide upon a minimal but complete interface for Vector. It looks like you could do with some member variables instead of creating local variables named size and degree
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 « Embed this message Reply #31 on: October 05, 2009, 10:59:25 am » posted from:Taipei,T\'ai-pei,Taiwan

Thank you for your comment. I am not a professional programmer. I am a physicist , I enjoy the fun of physics and I hope the simulations I have created can help users to enjoy the fun of physics, too!
I hope you can create better simulation to help other, too! :-) You are welcomed to upload it here and share with others.
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 « Embed this message Reply #32 on: May 14, 2010, 09:52:14 pm » posted from:Livonia,Michigan,United States

Hello, Professor Hwuang,

Would you please send me the Java code for this version of vector addition?  I like your work and it illustrated the concept clearly!

Thank you!

Wen

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 « Embed this message Reply #33 on: May 20, 2010, 05:19:42 pm » posted from:Taipei,T'ai-pei,Taiwan

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 « Embed this message Reply #34 on: July 06, 2011, 03:34:59 am » posted from:-,-,PAKISTAN

Hi folk, I need help.
I encountered a question in my high school exam that was

" The resultant of two anti-parallel vectors A and B is:
1) A+B
2) A-B "

I was told that it is A-B, but how could it be A-B, when resultant it self means that it is bascially the addition of two vectors.
If B vector is anti to A, then it should be -B as convention, but what if we say that -B=C
Then it becomes A+C, means we have to add them both to get answer.
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 « Embed this message Reply #35 on: July 06, 2011, 06:28:00 pm » posted from:Taipei,T'ai-pei,Taiwan

two anti-parallel vectors $\vec{A}$ and $\vec{B}$ means $\vec{B}=-\vec{A}$

The sum of two vectors $\vec{A}$ and $\vec{B}$ is $\vec{A}+\vec{B}= \vec{A}+(-\vec{A})=\vec{0}$
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 « Embed this message Reply #36 on: July 07, 2011, 03:05:59 am » posted from:-,-,PAKISTAN

Thanks for the response.
But what if the two vectors are of different magnitude and are anti parallel.
Then infact we'll have to subtract their magnitudes that will be |A-B| , but what if we want to write them in vector form, what would we write them if we want to get resultant?

A-B
or
A+B

Some people told me that as they are anti-parallel, then their resultant will be ultimately
A+(-B),
i.e A-B

One of my friend argued that the resultant should be A+B because

Let two vectors A and B,
A= |A| (k )
B= |B| (-k)

Now
Resultant:

A + (-B)

[|A| (k)] + [|B| (-k)]

As |B|(-k)= B

so

A + B
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Now if it is A+B, then it means that they would be added to each other, and their magnitutude should also be added?

Please do try to understand what I've written, and help me.
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 « Embed this message Reply #37 on: July 08, 2011, 02:57:45 am » posted from:-,-,PAKISTAN

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 « Embed this message Reply #38 on: July 08, 2011, 04:32:35 pm » posted from:Taipei,T'ai-pei,Taiwan

The sum of two vectors is always $\vec{A}+\vec{B}$.

For example: if $\vec{B}=-0.2 \vec{A}$
$\vec{A}+\vec{B}=\vec{A}+ (-0.2\vec{A})=0.8 \vec{A}$ (1.0-0.2)

if$\vec{B}= 0.2 \vec{A}$ , two vector are parallel.
$\vec{A}+\vec{B}=\vec{A}+ (0.2\vec{A})=1.2 \vec{A}$ (1.0+0.2)
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 « Embed this message Reply #39 on: January 02, 2012, 12:35:36 pm » posted from:Kolkata,West Bengal,India

if the angle between two vectors is a & b is @ and angle between vectors a+b and a is O
then

tan@=(bsinO )/(a+bcosO )
now
tan2 @=(bsinO)2/(a+bcosO)2

now
tan2@= sec2@ -1
and
sec2@ =1/cos2@
{a2 sec2O + b2 + 2absecO}
so cos2@=
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{a2sec2O + b2sec2O + 2absecO}

if @ =0
b2=b2cos2O
O=0
if @ =90
a=-bcosO
if O=90

-b2
tan2@=
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a2+b2

HERE BOLD CHARACTERS REPRESENT VECTORS.
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 « Embed this message Reply #40 on: January 02, 2012, 01:48:13 pm » posted from:Kolkata,West Bengal,India

if the angle between two vectors is a & b is @ and angle between vectors a+b and a is O
then

tan@=(bsinO )/(a+bcosO )

now

tan2 @=(bsinO)2/(a+bcosO)2

now

tan2@= sec2@ -1

and

sec2@ =1/cos2@

{a2 sec2O + b2 + 2absecO}

so cos2@=

{a2sec2O + b2sec2O + 2absecO}

if @ =0

b2=b2cos2O

O=0

if @ =90

a=-bcosO

if O=90

-b2

tan2@=  _________________

a2+b2

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 « Embed this message Reply #41 on: November 17, 2012, 09:42:01 pm » posted from:Dhaka,Dhaka,Bangladesh

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I have just seen it,nice I love that.
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 « Embed this message Reply #42 on: December 29, 2012, 01:13:07 pm » posted from:,,Satellite Provider

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