Advanced Placement • College • High School / Engineering • Physics
Vector Addition
The purpose of this experiment is to use a force table to experimentally determine the force that balances two other forces. This result is checked by adding the two forces using their horizontal and vertical vector components and by graphically adding the force vectors.
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