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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…
  
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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…
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…
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…
  
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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…
  
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This is a collection of remedial exercises and introductory tutorials developed to prepare students for an algebra-based physics course. The tutorials include free body diagrams,…
  
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This interactive tutorial provides comprehensive help and practice in understanding vector quantities. It is organized into six sections: vector direction, vector addition,…
  
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This page has a simple applet demonstrating equilibrium of three forces in a system consisting of two pulleys and three weights. The user can adjust the weights and the placement of…
  
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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…
  
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D. Austin and B. Martin; Publisher: University of Calgary
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This animation shows how a vector can be broken into components. Step by step, the animation draws the vector, draws axes, determines the projections onto the axes, and gives the…
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