Show this lab sheet as your hall pass. If any teacher or administrator finds a physics student wandering the halls not participating in this lab by making noise or interfering with another class please take this sheet from them, comment on the back what happened, put this in my box, and send the student back to class!

VECTOR LAB

Your mission as a rookie physics agent is to do a vector analysis of a student route at Dacula High School. You are to find the resultant vector between room ______ and room _____. You must record your vector components by two different pathways, one pathway to your destination and another pathway back to your original position.

While you are working, it is important to remember that enemy forces are having class and they must not be alerted to your mission. If they were disturbed, it would not only jeopardize this mission but all future missions outside of mission headquarters as well.

What equipment we have is at your disposal. Please request what you need before your mission begins. If you find that you need equipment after the mission has begun, you may send a courier for it. Remember that your commander may not be in headquarters, but out in the field checking on the agents, so think ahead.

When you complete your mission, return to headquarters immediately. All agents must be back in headquarters within 30 minutes for a debriefing. Do not make your actual graphs until you return. We would not want these reports falling into enemy hands.

Your mission report should include: (check them off as you complete them)

1) a unit for the measurement of vector lengths (of your choice as long as you describe your unit,

Ex: Katherine's foot could be KF or the length of Rahim = R)

2) a list of vector quantities to your destination (in words- like directions on a pirate's map)

3) a list of vector quantities back to your starting place (2 & 3 should be on a separate piece of paper)

4) a graphical representation of the vector components to your destination (draw the map with arrows as your vectors and use a different color for going and returning (and the resultant- see #8))

5) a graphical representation of the vector components to go back (show these on the same graph)

6) a graphical representation of the resultant vector (i.e. the shortest distance between the start and finish will be a STRAIGHT line connecting them. Shown on the same graph)

7) a quantity for each individual vector listed below or beside each vector drawn on the graph (label the length of each vector you draw)

8) a vector quantity for the resultant vector written and circled beside your graph (this is the length of the line you drew in #6 (use Pythagorean theorem and show work) AND ITS ANGLE! (use tan-1(op./adj.))

9) a legend of the scale used on your graph (i.e. how many steps does one square on your graph represent?)

* In order to protect your reports from enemy retrieval, use a color code to show the following: 1 color for the initial vector path, 1 color for the return vector path, 1 color for the resultant path. In order to protect the sanity of your commander, clearly label each part required in the report (Ex. At the top of the graph page have UNIT = ____________).

Enclosed is a map of the target area. You may label your vectors on the map and then transpose the information onto graph paper back in headquarters. Be sure not to cross outside the line indicated by your commander or you will suffer grave consequences!!