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Grade 11General Physics

ehich of the following vectors cannot be added to give zero vector on addition? (A) 3,4,5 (B) 2,1,3 (C) 12,10,15 (D) 13,5,12 and why?

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16 Years agoGrade 11
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16 Years ago

Hi

For resultant of three vectors to be zero they must make a triangle

Hence the answer is (b) 2,1,3

because it cannot form a triangle because we know that sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the third side but here 2+1 is not greater than 3.

 

 

 

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Anurag Kishore