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What is are resultant forces?

Updated: 9/24/2023
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A resultant force is the equivalent force, of two or more individual forces that act on the same object. For example, if somebody pulls with a force of 100 N due north, and somebody else pulls with a force of 100 N due east, the resultant force would be about 141 N, due north-east. Calculations are done with vectors; specifically, any vector has to be separated into components along the x-axis and the y-axis (and the z-axis, in a 3-dimensional situation), and the components are added individually.

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