Ika_10 said:A bomb is released from an airplane flying horizontally at an elevation 1600 ft with a velocity of 294 ft/s.
I don't know how to get the magnitude. Will you please help me?
You've got to calculate the vertical and horizontal velocities of the bomb when it strikes the ground before you can worry about the magnitude of anything. ;)Ika_10 said:Maybe that the formula for the magnitude will be derived from the main formulas but i don't know where's the magnitude in that formulas
Ika_10 said:i don't know where's the magnitude in that formulas
Magnitude and direction refer to the size and orientation of a vector quantity. A vector has both magnitude (length) and direction, while a scalar only has magnitude.
The magnitude of a vector can be calculated using the Pythagorean theorem. Take the square root of the sum of the squares of the components of the vector. For example, if the vector is (3, 4), the magnitude would be √(3² + 4²) = 5.
The direction of a vector can be determined using trigonometric functions. For example, if the vector is (3, 4), the direction would be the angle between the vector and the positive x-axis, which can be found using arctan(4/3) ≈ 53.13°.
No, the magnitude of a vector is always positive. It is the length of the vector and cannot be negative.
The magnitude of a vector can be represented by the length of the vector on a graph, while the direction can be represented by the angle the vector makes with the positive x-axis.