Thursday, July 27, 2017

newtonian mechanics - Component of Component of a vector



NOTE :


By perpendicular component of F, I mean a vector which is a component of F, but perpendicular to it.


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In the image above, the red vectors are a possible set of rectangular components of F, and blue vector is the sine component of cos component of F, ie, perpendicular component of F.


Now, logically, the perpendicular component of F should be zero, since its projection is zero.



But if we consider the image above, the Perpendicular component, |F|cosθsinθ, is not zero.


What is the cause of this discrepancy, and how to take components properly?



Answer



If you take again the components of the vector whose magnitude is Fsinθ, you will see one component of it will cancel the vector represented by the blue arrow both of which will have a magnitude of Fcosθsinθ:


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The other components of the components of F will be vectors whose magnitudes are Fcos2θ and Fsin2θ whose sum will equal to F.


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