Perpendicular components
What Perpendicular components means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: OCR
The two parts along chosen perpendicular axes that replace a single vector and can be treated independently.
Two vectors at right angles to each other whose combined effect is identical to the original vector.
Topics that use Perpendicular components
- Scalars and vectors (AQA A-Level)
- Scalars and vectors (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Scale drawing
- Coplanar forces at a point
- Displacement
- Equilibrium
- Equilibrium conditions
- Free-body diagrams
- Independence of perpendicular directions
- Magnitude and direction of a resultant
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