Scalars and Vectors
Scalars and Vectors: Overview
This topic consists of various concepts like Physical Quantity,Scalar Quantity,Algebra of Scalar Quantities, etc.
Important Questions on Scalars and Vectors
A bus is moving on a straight road towards north with a uniform speed of turns through anticlockwise. If the speed remains unchanged after turning , the increase in the velocity of bus in the turning process is:

A ball is projected from ground with at with horizontal. A wall is of height at distance of from the projection point. The ball will hit the wall at height of

Vector is towards east, vector is , north of east then find .

Two forces of each are acting on a point mass. If the angle between the forces is , then the net force acting on the point mass has magnitude close to :

A vector in plane makes an angle of with -axis. The magnitude of -component of vector is . The magnitude of -component of the vector will be :

When vector is subtracted from vector , it gives a vector equal to . Then the magnitude of vector will be:

Two forces having magnitude and are perpendicular to each other. The magnitude of their resultant is:

If and then find the displacement from A to B

If y-component of a force acting in x-y plane is . Then the x- component will be


Two forces of magnitude and act perpendicular to each other. The magnitude of the resultant force is equal to

The resultant of two vectors is perpendicular to one of them and has the magnitude . If the sum of the magnitude of two vectors is then their respective magnitude are

An aeroplane has to reach to and back again along straight line. The speed of aeroplane with respect to wind is . The wind blows perpendicular to line with speed . The distance between and is . The total time for the round trip is


Four particles lie initially at the corners of a square of side length. All the particles start to move with speed moves towards , moves towards , moves towardsand moves towards . The distance covered by a particle till they meet, is

Find the acceleration of the block of mass in the situation shown in the figure. All the surfaces are frictionless.

If and are unit vectors, then the angle between and for to be a unit vector is

If the rod and wedge are in contact then find the relation between

Slect which of the above vectors have the same direction.

Given that , out of three vectors two are equal in magnitude and the magnitude of third vector is times that of either of two having equal magnitudes. Then, angle between vectors are given by
