As you will see in a later chapter, forces are vector quantities, and the total force on an object is the vector sum of all forces acting on it.
In the figure below, a force
F1
of magnitude 6.90 units acts on a crate at the origin in a direction = 34.0° above the positive x-axis. A second force
F2
of magnitude 5.00 units acts on the crate in the direction of the positive y-axis. Find graphically the magnitude and direction (in degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis) of the resultant force
F1 + F2.
