Activity

Graphical Method and Pythagorean Theorem of Finding the Resultant

I. Graphical Method

A. Draw according to scale. (Design your own scale). (Use a separate sheet of bond paper)
1. 12 km, South
2. 11 mm, 12° South of East
3. 22 m/s, 45° North of West
4. 75 cm, North
5. 100km/hr, 280°

B. Write down the direction of the vector in the diagrams:

C. Find the resultant of the three vectors graphically if given these magnitudes:(Sate the
direction of each vector based on your answer in number 2)
a= 20 units
b= 30 units
c= 30 units

D. Find the resultant:

A = 50 km, 10° North of East
B = 30 km, 60° West of North
C = 40 km, North

E. The STEM 12 students of Lagro High School went to UP Observatory to watch a heavenly
body in the night sky. These are the displacements they have taken. Draw to scale.
(Scale: 1 cm = 10 m)
d1 = 68 m, West
d2 = 65 m, 37° North of East Answer the ff. questions:
d3 = 64 m, 75° North of West 1. What is the resultant vector?________________
d4 = 67 m, 33° South of East 2. The shape that the vectors formed will be the
d5= 66 m, 31° North of East heavenly body that they observed. What is it?
d6 = 63 m, 15° West of South _______________________________________
d7 = 64 m, 39° South of East
d8 = 68 m, West
d9 = 63 m, 20° West of South
II. Apply the Pythagorean Theorem and the trigonometric functions in finding the resultant

1. d1 = 63 m, North
d2 = 45 m, West

2. d1 = 30 km, South
d2 = 80 km m, East

3. d1 = 68 m/s, West
d2 = 63 m/s, South

4. d1 = 630 m, East
d2 = 245 m, South