alleryStart learning →The horizontal and vertical components of a motion add together to give:
ANo path at all here
BA wholly circular path
CThe straight-line path
DTwo separate paths
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. The straight-line path
1. Components are a bookkeeping device rather than separate real motions.
2. The horizontal and vertical components of the motion add together to give the straight-line path.
3. Resolving and then recombining returns the original motion unchanged.
4. That is why the method loses no information.
_Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP(R) Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 'Two-Dimensional Kinematics', sections 3.1-3.4_
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