I guess the reason textbooks use the magnitude-direction format some is that it may be easier to relate to real life. In real life, I would measure the magnitude and direction of a force and then ...

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Dealing with Vectors Vector Components Any vector can be expressed as a sum of a number of other vectors. The vectors which are summed are called the components of the original vector. When you want ...