## Aliza29faye one year ago A man a is being blown by a hurricane force wind acting horizontal to the ground. He hangs onto a pole to keep from being blown away. He weighs 200 lbs. The wind acts on the man with a force of 150 lbs. What is the resultant of these two forces? a) Magnitude ______________ b) Direction ____________ diagram in comments

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1. aliza29faye

|dw:1442317800325:dw|

2. johnweldon1993

Well we just need to add the 2 vectors, they add up nicely here |dw:1442333921228:dw| Looks like a right triangle doesn't it? *Pythagorea's*

3. aliza29faye

so you just add 200 and 150? or do you do a^2 + b^2 =c^2?

4. johnweldon1993

The latter :) $\large Resultant = \sqrt{(150)^2 + (200)^2}$

5. aliza29faye

so then the resultant is the direction or magnitude?

6. johnweldon1993

That is the magnitude of the resultant...the direction comes next

7. johnweldon1993

Now the direction, I'm not sure how precise they want you to be...idk if they want "north, south, east, west etc..." or the angle...but I'm going to assume just the previous Well as we can see from my drawing...the resultant looks to be facing SW right?

8. aliza29faye

yep,

9. aliza29faye

my guess would be the angle