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Question: A child pulls a wagon with a force of 40 lbs. The handle of the wagon makes a angle of 30° with the ground. Express the force vector F in terms i and j.
Answer: 17.32i+10j
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! draw a simple line diagram...basically a right angled triangle. I assume that i is in the horizontal and j is in the vertical directions. Assuming this to be the case, we have the angle 30 degrees and the hypotenuse is 40.
What we are basically doing is "resolving" this into 2 component parts, at right angles to each other:
Horizontally, let this portion/projection of the 40 lb force be called H say, so that using trig:
cos30 = adj/hyp
Vertically, we get an equivalent for the projection, V:
sin30 = opp/hyp
So, the vector of the force pulling the handle can be thought of as and 20j.
Force is
Your answer is not correct - from a directional point of view it is fine, but the magnitude of 17.32i + 10j is not 400, it is --> which is 20.
