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Given The Magnitude Of Vector A To Be 6 Units. Find The Comp...
Given the magnitude of vector A to be 6 units. Find the component of A along the x-axis?
Options:
A .  3√3
B .  3√3^i
C .  −3√3
D .  −3√3^i
Answer: Option C
:
C
Well normally I guess by now you know how to find component of a vector along a given vector i.e.
(Magnitude of vector)×(cosine of angle between the two vectors)
This takes care of everything
In this case
6×cos150=6×cos(90+60)
= -6sin60=6×32=33
Caution:- Component of a vector is scalar. I agree it's tough to understand and remember trigonometric
identitiesintuitively. Also component of a vector is just the measure of the shadow

Given The Magnitude Of Vector A To Be 6 Units. Find The Comp...
Here the length of shadow is 6cos30=6×32=33 but this component is on -ve x-axis.
But since the question asks the component along the direction of +vex-axis, so the component should be 33

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