Question

Suppose that during a storm the force of the wind blowing against a skyscraper can be expressed by the vector , where each measure in the ordered triple represents the force in newtons. what is the magnitude of this force?

Answer 1

Answer: A. 3457 N

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Here we do not have the vector, but I will try to give a kinda general solution to this type of problem.

If the vector is written as (a, b, c) we have that the force in the x-axis is of a Newtons, in the y-axis is of b Newtons, and in the z-axis is of c Newtons.

Then, we can calculate the total magnitude of this force as:

F = √( a^2 + b^2 + c^2)

wich gives us the total magnitude of the force, but not a direction or anything like that, this is just a scalar.