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Physics Classroom: Resolution of Forces 
  
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This interactive tutorial explains how to resolve a force into force components. Numerous examples are combined with a simple language and informative graphics to provide students…
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/U3L3b.cfm
The Physics Classroom: Vector Addition 
  
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This student tutorial provides practice in the basics of vector addition. The author provides free-body diagrams and animations to guide users through the Pythagorean method and the…
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/U3L1b.cfm
Vector Addition with Integer Components  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This simulation offers beginning students practice in two-dimensional vector addition. It is relatively simple, as the x and y components of each vector are integers. Given the…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10010&DocI...
Vector Addition Patterns Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This item is a Java simulation that illustrates the tail-to-tip method of adding vectors. As students adjust lengths and angles of two vectors, the resultant vector and components…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10011&DocI...
The Physics Classroom: Mechanics: Vectors and Forces in 2-D Problems 
  
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This is a set of 27 problems that are used to test the understanding of forces and vectors in 2-D. With each problem there is a solution and an audio guided solution. This is a…
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/calcpad/vecforce/problems.cfm
Walter Fendt Physics Applets: Resultant of Forces (Addition of Vectors) 
  
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This animation gives students a highly visual way to see how the math works in vector addition. Users can input 2-5 forces. The animation then shows the parallel translations of the…
https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/resultant_en.htm
Where to Where 
  
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This applet illustrates the motion of an object in from different reference perspectives. A block moves with a constant velocity on a second object that is also moving. Velocities…
http://www.rwi-natuurkunde.nl/applets/Surendranath/Applets/Kinematics/Re...
Vectors 
  
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This material includes a general discussion of math application to forces for the inclined plane with links to a related lesson plan and further opportunities to explore vectors.…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Svector.htm
Adding Two Vectors 
  
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This website provides an animation of the addition of two vectors.
https://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Flash/Vectors/Add2Vecto...
Walter Fendt Physics Applets: Resolution of a Force into Components 
  
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This applet demonstrates a method to find the sum of two vectors The component vectors can be in any directions relative to the given vector and each other and includes finding…
https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/forceresolution_en.htm
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