Imagine that you pushed a box, applying a force of 60 newtons, over a distance of 4 meters. How much would you have done?
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Answer:
Same direction to produce maximum magnitude and opposite direction to produce minimum magnitude
Explanation:
Let a be the angle between vectors A and B. Generally when we add A to B, we can split A into 2 sub vectors, 1 parallel to B and the other perpendicular to B.
Also let A and B be the magnitude of vector A and B, respectively.
We have the parallel component after addition be
Acos(a) + B
And the perpendicular component after addition be
Asin(a)
The magnitude of the resulting vector would be
As A and B are fixed, the equation above is maximum when cos(a) = 1, meaning a = 0 degree and vector A and B are in the same direction, and minimum with cos(a) = -1, meaning a = 180 degree and vector A and B are in opposite direction.