Problem 2.1 The magnitudes jFA j D 60 N and jFB j D 80 N. The angle D 45 .

. Graphically determine the magnitude of the vector FA C FB and the angle between the vectors FB and FA C FB . Strategy: Construct the parallelogram for determining the sum of the forces, drawing the lengths of FA and FB proportional to their magnitudes and accurately measuring the angle , as we did in Example 2.1. Then you can measure the magnitude of FA C FB and the angle between FB and FA C FB .

FC
a

FB

FA

Solution: Draw the vectors to scale and measure the magnitude and angle of the resultant
Measuring we nd jFA C FB j D 130 N D 19

FA

FB

|F A

| + FB
80 N

45 60 N

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