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Guidance needed - or is this a new feature?
John ...
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On tossing some ball, I would like not only to show the velocity and acceleration vectors but also the x- and y-components of the velocity vectors. This should be possible because those vector components are parallel to the axes and the numerical values of the velocity components are calculated anyway. So far, I've not been able to see those vectors and I am wondering ... how ...


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Douglas Brown
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Sorry, John, Tracker does not draw separate x- and y-vectors. Doug


> On tossing some ball, I would like not only to show
> the velocity and acceleration vectors but also the
> x- and y-components of the velocity vectors. This
> should be possible because those vector components
> are parallel to the axes and the numerical values
> of the velocity components are calculated anyway.
> So far, I've not been able to see those vectors and
> I am wondering ... how ...



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