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This document contains a worksheet with problems involving position vectors, displacement vectors, and resultant vectors. There are questions that involve calculating position vectors, displacement vectors, magnitudes of vectors, angles between vectors, and resultants of vectors. The problems relate to points in 2D space and vectors formed between those points, including determining vector expressions, lengths, and angles.

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Vector Math Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with problems involving position vectors, displacement vectors, and resultant vectors. There are questions that involve calculating position vectors, displacement vectors, magnitudes of vectors, angles between vectors, and resultants of vectors. The problems relate to points in 2D space and vectors formed between those points, including determining vector expressions, lengths, and angles.

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January/30th/2015

FORM 5
WORKSHEET: Position, Displacement and Resultant vectors
Position Vectors:
1. Given the point P(4,-7), determine:

OP

a)

OP and the x-axis.

b) The acute angle between

2. Given the point P and Q are (3, 7) and (3, 5) respectively.

c)

Express each of the position vectors

OP and OQ in the form

( xy ) .

OP + OQ = c, determine |c|.

d) If

Displacement Vectors:
1. Given the point P(2,4) and Q(5,6), determine:

a)

PQ

PQ

b)

2. Given the point C(-3,-6) and D(-4,-7), determine:

a)

CD

CD

b)

3. Given the position vectors,

( 42 )

OP =

( 85 ) ,

determine the distance between P and R.

Resultant Vectors:

1. Given that the position vector

a) The resultant of the two vectors,

4 6
=
1
2

() ()

OP =

OQ

are adjacent sides of a parallelogram OPQR, determine:

January/30th/2015
FORM 5
WORKSHEET: Position, Displacement and Resultant vectors

b) The magnitude of

OQ

c) The acute angle between

OQ and the x-axis.

OA =

2. Given that the position vector

6
2
OC =
5
1

( )

( )

are adjacent sides of a parallelogram OABC,

determine:

a) The resultant of the two vectors,

OB

b) The magnitude of

OB

c) The acute angle between

OB and the x-axis.

3. The points P(3,5) and R(7,9) are opposite vertices of a parallelogram OPQR. Determine:

a) The resultant of the two vectors,

OQ

b) The magnitude of

OQ

c) The acute angle between

OQ and the x-axis.

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