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Sorry And here's your smoke to shore Brought to you

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by vector diagrams Yes What you thought was just doodling

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is now part of advanced physics Congrats baby All right

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check the falling diagram this thing here like you grandpas

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given these vector fields of equal magnitude in which direction

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will the resulting vector field go And here the potential

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answers that way Vector field Before we jump into this

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let's take another look at our vector field diagram this

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puppy right here Well there are five vertical vectors and

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three horizontal doctors say one for five and a one

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two three But notice that the question states the vector

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fields have the same magnitude So it's important that we

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don't get thrown off by the number of lines we

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see They're just representative of a plane If we know

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we're dealing with two vector fields of equal magnitude going

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in different directions How do we figure out the net

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Vector field Well we have to add the vectors do

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that We take one vector from each field and place

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them tip to tail Then we connect the ends to

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find the net factor like this Well that means our

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option d is the correct answer Now this question the

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answer is pretty straight forward once we know how to

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put the vectors together After all we're just drawing a

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line to make a right triangle But if the diagrams

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aren't is straight and need is this one or if

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we just can't visualize what it's supposed to look like

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Well we can sketch you draw the line ourselves to

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make it clear That's right We may have to doodle

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on our ap physics test that's just fine We just

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need to make sure we're drawing vector diagrams and pink

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unicorn and next time we're day driving Well that's the

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kind of job that a theoretical physicist will do Remember 00:01:50.314 --> [endTime] sheldon man even when you're trying to waste time

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