Scalars and Vectors
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1UHS MDCAT 2008
A force has moves its point of application form (2,3) to (6,5). What is work done?
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2UHS MDCAT 2009
The scalar product of and is:
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3UHS MDCAT 2009
If the force of magnitude 8 N acts on a body in direction making an angle 30, its X and Y components will be:
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4UHS MDCAT 2009
Unit vector in the direction of vector will be:
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5UHS MDCAT 2010
The difference of a vector and its negative vector is:
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6UHS MDCAT 2010
If a force of magnitude 8 N acts on a body in direction making an angle 30, its x and y components will be:
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7UHS MDCAT 2010
If length of a spanner is ‘I’ and a force ‘F’ is applied on it to tighten a nut such that it passes through the pivot point, then torque is:
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8UHS MDCAT 2010
For a body to be in complete equilibrium:
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9UHS MDCAT 2016
If we double the moment arm, the value of torque becomes:
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10UHS MDCAT 2017 (Reconduct)
A force F is applied to a beam at a distance d from a pivot. The force acts at an angle ø to a line perpendicular to the beam.Which combination will cause the largest turning effect about the pivot?
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If two forces F1 and F2 act on a body and are balanced by a frictional force F3 so that the body is in equilibrium, then which of the following diagrams correctly represents the sum of vectors?
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If and , then the magnitude of will be:
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Numbers are expressed in standard form called scientific notation, which employs powers of:
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The vectors A and B are such that |A + B| = |A – B|, then the angle between the two vectors is:
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If x-component of a vector is and y-component is 1, then the angle made by the vector along x-axis is:
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16UHS MDCAT 2014
Two forces, 5 N and 10 N are acting at ‘O’ and ‘P’ respectively on a uniform rod of 100 cm is suspended at the position of center of gravity 50 cm mark as shown in the figure. What is position of P on meter rod?
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The acceleration is a _.
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18PMC Practice Test 4 2021
Vector is quantity that ------.
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Which unit is used in the measurement of Displacement?
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Velocity is a:
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Consider a car is travelling for one hour. Which of the following trips have the same average velocity?
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Displacement is a:
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The displacement has _.
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If a rotating body is moving anti-clockwise, the direction of angular velocity is:
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Instantaneous velocity is:
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Which quantity is a scalar quantity?
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Work is a:
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Displacement of sun with respect to earth is:
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A constant force is applied on a body. What will be the work done to move the body 5m in the z-direction?
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The vector product of two vectors A and B is _ vectors A and B.
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The scalar or dot product of Vectors and is ____________.
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A body will be in translational equilibrium if the vector sum of all the forces acting on it is:
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A vector in space has _ dimension:
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If represents a unit vector, the value of ‘c’ is:
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If A = B + C and A, B, C have scalar magnitudes of 5, 4, 3 units respectively then the angle between vector A and vector C is:
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Which pair includes a vector quantity and a scalar quantity respectively?
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The resultant of two forces has magnitude of 20N. If one of the forces is of magnitude 20√3 N and makes an angle of 30° with the resultant, then the other forces must be of magnitude:
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Two vectors S and R are such that S= 4, R= 6 and S.R= 13.5. Find the angle between S and R?
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Evaluate the scalar product of the following: k.( i + j) ?
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What is the projection of onto the direction of vector F=i+2j+2k?
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The scalar product of ?
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Find the work done in moving an object along a straight line from (3,2,−1) to (2,−1,4) in a force field given by
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If , then the unit vector parallel to A will be:
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R1 and R2 are two-position vectors making angles with positive X-axis respectively. Their vector product is:
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All of the following is/are scalar quantities except:
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Find the unit vector parallel to the vector:
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A vector such as the velocity of a body undergoing uniform translational motion, which can be displaced parallel to itself and applied to any point is known as:
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A particle moves from position r= 3i+2j-6k to r= 14i+13j+9k under the action of a Force F= 8i+2j+6k. Find the work done by the force:
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If . Find a vector x which is parallel to A but has the magnitude of B?
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If the unit vectors i, j, k are perpendicular to each other therefore;______ . ______
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The process by which a vector can be reconstituted from its components is known as:
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If lies in the 4th quadrant and makes an angle of 60° with y axis, what is its direction given by?
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The components of a vector behave like:
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If a vector A lies in xy-plane and it makes an angle ‘θ’ with the side of y-axis. Then its y component is:
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The angle between the rectangular components of a vector is always
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The magnitude of resultant of two vectors acting at right angle is-----------------than the individual vectors.
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The resultant vector of two vectors will be zero if
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A vector lying along x-axis has
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If the magnitudes and directions of two vectors are same then these two vectors are
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A vector whose tail lies at the origin of the coordinates and whose head lies at the position of point 'P' in space, known as
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Vector addition is
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To add all vectors we add their representative lines by
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The sum of two vectors equal in magnitude but opposite in direction is
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Vector A has the same magnitude as B but opposite in direction, then A is said to be
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The length of the arrow represents the _ of a vector
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Choose the vector
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The quantities which can be added, subtracted and multiplied by simple algebraic rules are:
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The projection of A = 2i-3j+6k onto the direction of vector B = i+2j+2k is
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(6i+4j-k) . (4i+2j-2k) = ?
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Two forces of magnitude 8N and 15N respectively act at a point. If the resultant force is 17N, the angle between the forces is:
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The resultant of two forces P and Q is of magnitude P. If the force P is doubled, remaining the same, then angle between new resultant and the force Q is
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The scalar product of two vectors is zero, when:
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Two forces of 8N and 6N are acting simultaneously at right angle, the resultant force will be
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If two vectors lie in xy-plane, their cross product lies
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The magnitude of the vector product of two vectors A and B may be: (a) Greater than AB (b) Equal to AB (c) less than AB (d) equal to 0
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The dot product of iˆ and jˆ is
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In graphical addition of vectors
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The sum and difference of two vectors are equal in magnitude. The angle between the vectors is
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Negative of a vector has a direction _ that of the original vector
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The position vector of a point p is a vector that represents its position with respect to
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A vector in any given direction whose magnitude is unity is called
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A vector which can be displaced parallel to itself and applied at any point is known as
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When a vector is multiplied by a negative number, its direction
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For the addition of any number of vectors in a given coordinate system the first step is to
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The vector quantity which is defined as the displacement of the particle during a time interval divided by that time interval is called
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Scalar quantities have
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The following physical quantities are called vectors
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Which of the following group of quantities represent the vectors
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The acceleration vector for a particle in uniform circular motion in
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Electric intensity is a
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In contrast of a scalar a vector must have a
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The cross product of two vector A and B in the form of their components Ax, Ay, Az, and Bx, By, Bz, is defined as _
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The vector product of a vector by itself is:
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The vector product C of two vectors A and B making an angle θ with each other is defined as:
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The scalar product of A and B in the form of the components Ax, Ay, Az, and Bx, By, Bz, is defined as:
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The scalar product of a vector A with itself i.e. A . A is called:
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If the vectors A . B = 0, either the vectors are mutually perpendicular to each other or one or both vectors are:
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A simple example of a dot product is the:
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For a force F, Fx = 6 N and Fy = 6 N. What is the angle between F and x-axis:
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In a right angled triangle, cosθ=
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A vector having an arbitrary direction and zero magnitude is called:
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A vector whose magnitude or modulus is one and it points in the direction of a given vector is called:
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A physical quantity which requires magnitude in proper units as well as direction is called:
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A physical quantity which is completely described by a number with proper units is called:
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If A = 3i + 6j, B = xi + k and A.B = 12, then x will be equal to:
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Two vectors of magnitude 20 N and 2m are acting in opposite directions. Their scalar product will be:
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If A = 2i + 2j and B = -2i + 2j, then A.B will be equal to:
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When a force of 10 N is acting on a body making an angle of 60° with x-axis and displaces this body through 10 m, then scalar product of force and displacement is:
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If A = 3i + 4j, then the magnitude of A will be:
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If x-component of a vector is 3 N and y-component is -3 N, then angle of the resultant vector with x-axis will be:
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The magnitude of i.(i x k) is:
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The product i × j is equal to:
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If A = A i and B = B j, then A . B is equal to:
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The cross product of a vector A with itself is:
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If cross product between two non zero vectors A and B is zero ,then their dot product is:
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If A = Axi + Ayj and B = Bxi + Byj, then A.B will be equal to:
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If two forces each of magnitude 5N act along the same line on a body, then the magnitude of their resultant will be:
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Two forces of same magnitude are acting on an object, the magnitude of their resultant is minimum if the angle between them is:
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A force of 20N is acting along x-axis, its component along x-axis is:
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When two equal and opposite vectors are added, then their resultant will have:
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If a vector A = iˆ + jˆ + kˆ , its magnitude will be:
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A vector having magnitude equal to given vector but in opposite direction is called:
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The angle of a vector A = Axi - Ay j with the x-axis will be in between:
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When the product of two vectors is a scalar quantity, it is called:
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The unit vector of a vector A of magnitude 2 is:
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Unit vector is used to specify:
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If two equal unit vectors are inclined at an angle of 90°, then magnitude of their resultant will be:
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The magnitude of resultant of three vectors is 3. Its x-component is 2 and it's y-component is 1. Its z- component will be:
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If r = 2iˆ m and p = 12 jˆ kgms-1, the r × p will be:
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If B = iˆ -2 jˆ +2 kˆ , then unit vector along B will be:
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A force of 10N is acting on a body making an angle of 45° with x-axis. Its x and y components are:
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The vector product between two vectors A and B is:
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If |F1| =3cm and |F2| =4cm, F1 is making an angle of 30° and F2 is making an angle of 120° with the x-axis, then their scalar product is:
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Two forces of same magnitude F act on a body inclined at an angle of 90°, then the magnitude of their resultant is:
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The magnitude of a vector A= Axi +Ayj +Azk is:
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If displacement of a body is d = 3i, its only significance is:
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The question is given below:
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The angle between the vectors in the following question is:
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Dot or scalar product obeys the:
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The unit vector in the direction of vector A:
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Which one is correct?
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The magnitude of a vector is obtained by:
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Two vectors of magnitudes A1 and A2 acting at right angles to each other have the resultant of magnitude:
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Two vectors of magnitude A1 and A2 inclined at each other at an angle θ have resultant of magnitude equal to:
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The magnitude of cross product of two parallel vectors a and b is equal to:
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The y-component of a vector 100N force, making an angle of 30° with the x-axis is:
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If the dot product of two non-zero vectors A and B is zero, their cross product will be of magnitude:
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The magnitude of.....
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The cross product of vector A with itself ( A x A ) is equal to:
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The cross product of two parallel vectors A and B (i.e. A x B) is equal to:
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The cross-product of two vectors is a negative vector when:
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The scalar product of two vectors is negative when:
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For a vector V:
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If two non-zero vectors a and b are parallel to each other, then:
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Dot product of two non-zero vectors is zero ( a . b = 0) when angle between them is be:
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If the dot product of two non-zero vectors vanishes, the vectors will be:
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If the vectors A and B are of magnitude 4 and 3 cm making of 30° and 90° respectively with X- axis, their scalar product will be:
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The scalar or dot product of A with itself i.e. A . A is equal to:
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When two equal forces F and F make an angle of 180° with each other, the magnitude of their resultant is:
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Two forces each of 10N magnitude act on a body. If the forces are inclined at 30° and 60° with x- axis, then the x-component of their resultant is:
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If a force of 10N makes an angle of 30° with x-axis, its x-component is given by:
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The minimum number of unequal forces whose vector sum can be zero is:
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When a certain vector is multiplied by -1, the direction changes by:
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The Fx component of a force vector 'F' of magnitude 30N make an angle of 60° with X-axis is:
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A vector which has magnitude ‘one’ is called:
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Position vector of point in xy-plane is given by:
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If the resultant of two vectors each of magnitude F is also of magnitude F, the angle between them will be:
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If A × B points along positive z-axis then the vectors A and B must lie in:
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If a charged particle of mass m and charge q is projected across uniform magnetic field B with a velocity V, it experience magnitudes force given by:
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Two forces each of magnitude F act perpendicular to each other. The angle made by the resultant force with the horizontal will be:
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If A.B = 0, we conclude that:
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If two forces act together on an object then the magnitude of the resultant is least when the angle between the forces is:
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A vector is multiplied by positive number then:
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Cross product of two vectors is zero when they are:
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If a vector α makes an angle θ with the x-axis its x-component is given as:
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Scalar product is also known as:
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Scalar product is also called:
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The scalar product of two vectors is negative when they are:
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Angular momentum is:
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If two vectors are anti-parallel, scalar product is equal to the:
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When three forces acting at a point are in equilibrium:
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If A and B are two vectors, then the correct statement is:
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Two vectors having different magnitudes:
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Which of the following quantity is scalar?
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Two forces 3N and 4N are acting on a body, if the angle between them is 90 then magnitude of resultant force is:
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The angle between rectangular components of vector is:
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Vectors are added graphically using:
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Physical resultant of two or more vectors is a single vector whose effect is same as the combine effect of all the vectors to be added is called:
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Physical quantities represented by magnitude are called:
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Let us take i, j and k be three unit vectors such that:
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A vector whose magnitude is same as that of A, but opposite in direction is known as
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Which of the following is the example of vector quantity?
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Which of the following is the example of scalar quantity?
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Which one of the following is the vector quantity?
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Which one of the following is the scalar quantity?
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Vectors are the physical quantity which are completely represented by their magnitude as well as in proper _ .
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Which of the following is not a vector quantity?
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Identify the scalar quantity.
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Identify the vector quantity.
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A horse is pulling a cart exerting a force of 100 N at an angle of 30 to one side of motion of the cart. Work done by the horse as it moved 20m is
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A force of 30 N acts on a body and moves it 2m in the direction of force. The work done is
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Xand Y-components of the velocity of a body are 3 ms-1 and 4 ms-1 respectively. The magnitude of velocity is
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A vector in space has
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If A . B = 0 and also A × B = 0, then
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When we take scalar product of a vector by itself (self product) the result gives the:
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The position vector of a point in xz-plane is given by
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Which of the following is true?
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The cross product ( A × B ) of two non-zero parallel vectors is equal to
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The cross product of vector F with itself (i.e. F × F ) is equal to
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Area of the parallelogram in which the two adjacent sides are A and B is given by
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If (a x b ) points along positive z-axis, then the vectors a and b must lie in
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The vector product of two vectors is zero, when
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The dot product of two vectors is negative when
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If two non-zero vector A and B are parallel to each other then A . B is equal to
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If the dot product of two non-zero vectors vanishes, the vectors will be
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If A =Ai ,B=A j , then A.B is equal to
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The scalar product of two vectors is zero, when
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The dot product of two vector A and B making an angle θ with each other is
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The scalar product of a vector F with itself is equal to
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If two forces of 10N and 20N are acting on a body in the same direction, then their resultant is
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Two equal forces F and F make an angle of 180° with each other, the magnitude of their resultant is
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The resultant of two forces each of magnitude F is 2F, then the angle between them will be
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A force F of magnitude 20N is acting on an object making an angle of 30° with the X-axis. Its Fy component is
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Geometrical method of addition of vectors is
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Two forces of 10N and 15N are acting simultaneously on an object in the same direction. Their resultant is
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Two forces are acting together on an object. The magnitude of their resultant is minimum when the angle between force is
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A force of 10N is acting along y-axis. Its component along x-axis is
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The rectangular components of a vector have angle between them
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If a vector is divided by its magnitude, we get
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A vector which specifies the direction is called:
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A vector having zero magnitude is called:
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A vector having magnitude as one, is known as:
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Which of the following list of physical quantities consists only of vectors?
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Which of the following is the only vector quantity?
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Which of the following is a scalar quantity?
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A vector is a physical quantity which is completely specified by:
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A scalar is a physical quantity which is completely specified by:
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If i, j, and k are unit vectors along x, y, and z-axis, then k x j =?
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Let we have three vectors A, B and C, then according to distributive law with respect to addition.
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In cross product, i x i = j x j = k x k =
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If A × B = 0 then:
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The vector product of two vector L and M can be determined by the formula _.
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Let we have three vectors A , B and C , then according to distributive law:
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Let we have two vectors X and Y , and if X .Y = 0, then:
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If L . M = M . L , then we can say:
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The cosine of an angle is negative in _ quadrants.
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The tangent of an angle is positive in first and _ quadrant.
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“Cos θ ” is positive in first and _ quadrant.
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“Sin θ ” is _ in second quadrant and first quadrant.
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The scalar product of two vectors L and M is defined as _
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When the multiplication of two vectors result into a vector quantity, then the product is called _.
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The product of two vector is called scalar or dot product when they give_.
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The x-component of the resultant is positive and its y-component is negative, then the result is true for:
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If the x-component of the resultant is negative and its y-component is positive, the result is true for:
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If a vector Z having three components (Zx, Zy, Zz) along x, y and z-axis, then it can be written as _.
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In three dimensional space, the position vector of a point P(a, b, c) is represented by r and is written as _.
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Let we have a vector F, then its vertical component is written as:
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Let we have a vector F, then its horizontal component is written as:
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If Bx and By are the magnitudes of the components and iˆ and j ˆ are the unit vectors along x and y axis, then we can write:
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If Fx and Fy are the components of vector F, then we can write as_.
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If we replace vector F into two components Fx and Fy then Fx and Fy are called_respectively.
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The process of replacing one vector by two or more parts is called_.
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Let we have two vectors A and B, then according to subtraction of vector, we can write _.
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Let we have two vectors B1 and B2, then we can write as:
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Symbol “ Σ ” is known as _.
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A.B = B.A =_.
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If we multiply vector by -1, then its direction changes by _.
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If we multiply vector z by -4, then we can write it as:
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If we multiply vector A by 14, then we can write it as:
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The null-vector has _ magnitude.
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The negative of vector C is represented as:
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In negative of a vector, a vector has same magnitude but _ direction.
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Along the three mutually perpendicular axes x, y and z, the unit vectors are denoted by:
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The formula of unit vector is defined as_.
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The unit vector of z is represented as:
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The vector whose magnitude is equal to one is called_.
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The magnitude of a vector C is represented as _.
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The module is another name of _ of the vector.
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We can write vector C as:
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When the product of two vectors gives us a vector quantity then the product is termed as:
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Momentum is a _ quantity.
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Speed is a _ quantity.
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Velocity is a_quantity.
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The vector quantities are described by their magnitude as well as _
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The scalar quantities are described by their magnitude and _
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The force on a particle with charge q and velocity in a magnetic field B is given by:
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The torque is given by the formula:
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Question is given below:
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If iˆ , jˆ , kˆ are unit vectors along x, y and z-axes then kˆ . jˆ = _
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The magnitude of vector product of two vectors A & B is given by:
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In vector product, the direction of product vector can be found by the:
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In the vector product of two vectors A & B the direction of the product vector is:
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If A , B , C are three vectors, then the distributive law can be written as:
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If dot product of two vectors which are not perpendicular to each other is zero, then either of the vectors is:
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iˆ . iˆ = jˆ . jˆ = kˆ . kˆ = _
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If iˆ , jˆ , kˆ are unit vectors along x, y and z-axes then iˆ . jˆ = jˆ . kˆ = kˆ . iˆ = ?
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If two vectors are perpendicular to each other, their dot product is:
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The scalar product of a vector A is given by:
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Work is defined as:
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The magnitude of product vector C i.e. A × B = C , is equal to the:
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The scalar product of two vectors F and V with magnitude of F and V is given by:
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The scalar product of two vectors A and B is written as:
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Scalar product is obtained when:
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If the x-component of the resultant of two vectors is positive and its y-component is negative, the resultant subtends an angle of _ on x-axes.
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The tangent of an angle is positive in_quadrants.
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The cosine of an angle is negative in_quadrants.
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The sine of an angle is positive in_quadrants.
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The y-component of the resultant of ŋ vectors can be obtained by the formula:
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The direction of a vector F can be found by the formula:
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If a vector is denoted by A then its x-component can be written as:
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To subtract a given vector from another, its _ vector is added to the other one.
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The position vector of a point p is a vector that represents its position with respect to:
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The resultant of two or more vectors is obtained by:
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In two-dimensional coordinate system, the components of the origin are taken as:
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Vectors are added according to:
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The vector obtained by adding two or more vectors is called:
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There are _ methods of adding two or more vectors.
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Negative of a vector has direction _ that of the original vector.
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Unit vector along the three mutually perpendicular axes x, y and z are denoted by:
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A unit vector is obtained by dividing the given vector by:
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321
The direction of a vector in a plane is measured with respect to two straight lines which are _ to each other.
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322
Addition, subtraction and multiplication of scalars is done by:
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323
A vector is described by magnitude as well as:
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324
The greatest and smallest resultant of two forces acting at a point is 10 N and 6 N respectively. If each force is increased by 3 N, find the magnitude of the new resultant forces when acting at a point while being perpendicular to each other:
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325
The position vectors of P and Q are (5i+4j+ak) and (-i +2j - 2k) respectively. If the distance between them is 7, then the value of a will be:
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326
The angle between two vectors of magnitude 12 and 18 units, when their resultant is 24 units, will be:
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327
The resultant of two forces, one is double the other in magnitude, is perpendicular to the smaller one of the two forces. The angle between the two forces is:
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328
An object originally at the point (2, 5, 1) cm is given a displacement of (8iˆ- 2jˆ+kˆ) cm . The co-ordinates of the new position are:
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329
If the angle between two forces increases, the magnitude of their resultant:
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330
The angles which a vector iˆ+jˆ+√2kˆ makes with the X, Y and Z axis respectively are:
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331
The resultant of the two vectors having magnitude 2 and 3 is 1. The magnitude of their cross product is:
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332
Answer the following question:
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333
The angle made by the vector A= iˆ + jˆ with x-axis is:
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334
The magnitude of a given vector with end points (4,–4, 0) and (–2,–2, 0) must be :
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335
Which of the following is correct?