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Force magnitude and direction Problems
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[QUOTE="gneill, post: 5410567, member: 293536"] Forces are vectors, so they have magnitude and direction. When analyzing a system it sometimes happens that you can choose your coordinate system so that all the forces and motions lie along (or are parallel to) a single coordinate axis. Then you have a so-called one-dimensional system and often you can drop the vector notation and deal with scalar magnitudes only . But more often you find that there are forces and motions occurring that require multiple coordinate axes to describe their directions. Essentially you have to look at your problem and determine how many coordinates are going to be required to describe it. [/QUOTE]
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