In this case on an object on a slope, the weight is a single force that can be resolved into two independent components: A 10 kg box slides down a frictionless slope. The slope is at 30° to the ...
pre-reqs: trig Think of the following two things. Temperature and wind speed. These are two different things that you could measure, but there is one big difference. Wind speed has two parts to it - ...
Any vector can be resolved into two components at right angles to each other. These two components when added together have the same effect as the initial single vector.