In this case on an object on a slope, the weight is a single force that can be resolved into two independent components: A 10 kg box slides down a frictionless slope. The slope is at 30° to the ...

Practise using vector components when adding, subtracting or calculating the magnitude of vectors ahead of your National 5 Maths exam. Revise using vector components to add and subtract vectors and ...

Any vector can be expressed as a sum of a number of other vectors. The vectors which are summed are called the components of the original vector. When you want to add and subtract two dimensional ...