Exercise 9

Magnitude and direction from components

Theory used: Cartesian components and polar coordinates Cartesian components

A velocity has components $v_{x} = - 6.0 m/s$ and $v_{y} = 8.0 m/s$ . Determine its magnitude and the angle with the positive $x$ -semiaxis, measured counterclockwise.

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