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When can the sum of two vectors be said to be greater

Option: 1

When the two vectors act in opposite directions

 


Option: 2

Both vectors act in the same direction


Option: 3

When both the vectors are at right angles

 


Option: 4

None of the Above.


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Option(b) is correct because Two vectors have the same direction if they are parallel and point in  the same direction. If one vector is a positive scalar multiple of the other, then the two vectors have exactly the same direction .

Option (a) is incorrect because two vectors of opposite orientation but of equal magnitude cancel out and yield a zero vector.

Option (c) is incorrect because Marshall said that when a pair of vectors are at right angles to each other, the magnitude of their combined force is greater than the magnitude of either the other vector alone.

 

                                             

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