Vector Decomposition & Addition/Subtraction Problems

In my experience, students entering engineering dynamics are not particularly skillful at decomposing vectors into components. Here is your opportunity to get some practice.

Practice Problems

In this PDF document you will find five vector decomposition practice problems, and a few vector addition/subtraction problems. For a review of vectors, you may look here.

Answers

Answers to the practice problems are provided here. Video descriptions of six of the problems are provided below.

Video Answer to Problem 1 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)

Video Answer to Problem 2 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)

Video Answer to Problem 3 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)

Video Answer to Problem 4 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)

Video Answer to Problem 5 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)

Video Answer to Problem 6 (To watch in a separate window, the link is here.)