PHYSICS LAB

EXPERIMENT
DESIGN
Lab: Vectors
Supichaya Nobnom
Prawfah Roruangkul
Passawas Satitjindawong
Pichayathida Siriwechdaruk

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Fy

Fx

AP Physics 1102
Ms.Susan Alulod
Mahidol University International Demonstration School
Semester 2 Academic year 2016-2018
OBJECTIVE
 INTRODUCTION
HOW TO FIND VECTOR:
WHAT IS VECTOR?
GRAPHICAL METHOD

Vector is a quantity Parallelogram method

 Bring out the vectors from the origin, arrange
it into the head to tail order, duplicate one
that include both more vector from each and put it on the
opposite side (but still parallel to the original

magnitude and
ones), and then connect vectors into a
parallelogram. The resultant force would be
the diagonal connecting the head of a vector

direction represented by
to the tail of another.

Polygon method
To find the resultant vector using polygon
an arrow pointing on method, the vectors should be connected in
the direction of heads to tails. Drawing an

the direction of vector.

arrow from the tail of a vector to the head of
another will show the resultant force (The
head of the resultant force should be on the
head of another arrow).

HOW TO FIND VECTOR -ANALYTICAL METHOD

To find the resultant force using the analytical method of vector, fist, find the x
and y components of all vectors, then sum them all into a vector of horizontal and
a vector of the vertical axis. Next, use the Pythagorean theorem to find the
magnitude of the resultant force. After that, use trigonometry to find the
direction by finding the angle using the formula theta = arctan (x/y)
 MATERIALS
VECTORS EXPERIMENT

1. Force Table
2. Pin
3. Ring Ring
4. Chords
5. Masses Pin

Pulley
Chord

mass
 Procedure 1
TWO F ORCES

1. Set up the force table.

2. Place a pin in the center of the table.
3. Hang three pulleys at different angles on the force table.
    - 1st angle: 60°C
    - 2nd angle: 300°C
    - Equilibrant angle: 169°C
4. Connect a ring with 3 chords.
5. Place the ring over the pin in the middle of the table and attach the
chords to three different pulleys.
6. Then, hang the masses to the pulleys
    - At the 1st angle hang the mass that weighs 1.5 Newtons
    - At the 2nd angle hang the mass that weighs 2 Newtons
7. Using another mass, hang the mass down from an angle and weight that
would let the ring be at the equilibrium position. The force exerted by this
mass will be the equilibrant force.
8.. Record the magnitude and the direction of the experiment result onto
the table.
9.. Calculate the resultant of both the magnitude and direction. The
magnitude of the resultant should be the same as the magnitude of
equilibrant, whereas the direction should be opposite. 
 Procedure 11
THR EE FORCES

1. Set up the force table.

2. Place a pin in the center of the table.
3. Hang four pulleys at different angles on the force table.
    - 1st angle: 60°C
    - 2nd angle: 120°C
    - 3rd angle: 210°C
    - Equilibrant angle: 300°C
4. Connect a ring with 4 chords.
5. Place the ring over the pin in the middle of the table and attach the chords to four different
pulleys.
6. Then, hang the masses to the pulleys
    - At the 1st angle hang the mass that weighs 2 Newtons
    - At the 2nd angle hang the mass that weighs 1.5 Newtons
    - At the 3rd angle hang the mass that weighs 1.8 Newtons
7. Using another mass, hang the mass down from an angle and weight that would let the ring
be at the equilibrium position. The force exerted by this mass will be the equilibrant force.
7. Record the magnitude and the direction of the experiment result onto the table.
8. Calculate the resultant of both the magnitude and direction. The magnitude of the resultant
should be the same as the magnitude of equilibrant, whereas the direction should be
opposite. 
EQUATIONS
law of SIne equation

law of cosine equation

pythagorus equation
EQUATIONS
% Difference

trigonometry
 CALCULATIONS

Trial 1

Finding magnitude of resultant force using 'Law of Cosine'

Finding direction of resultant force using 'Law of Sine'

CALCULATIONS
CALCULATIONS
 CALCULATIONS
Trial 2
CALCULATIONS
CALCULATIONS
 Analysis

According to the result shown in the data tables, the resultant force
which is the combination of the initial forces are the same in
magnitude, but opposite in direction with the equilibrant force
which means they always make a 180 degree angle to each other.
The reason is that when the initial forces combine and create the
resultant force, the resultant force act on the object in one
direction. In order to make the object finds it's equilibrium, we must
counteract the resultant force with the equilibrant force with the
same magnitude but in exact opposite in direction. The
experimental result is almost the same with the result from
analytical and graphical method but minor errors occurs as they
are not exactly identical but almost the same, this might be caused
by uncontrolled factors such as friction.
 Conclusion
To conclude, the experiment
done demonstrates how to
find the equilibrant using
force table, and how to use
the equilibrant force to find
the resultant force. Then, find
the same force stated using
graphing and analysis
method.
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Resultant Vector, Sum of Vectors How To Calculate The Resultant

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