
You can find the question on the left and the working out done on the right (by my tutor) but there are parts of this I don't understand:
1) i understand that52+122 gives you 13 and to calculate the magnitude of a line across the x and y axis is Fcos theta and Fsin theta
2) what i don't understand is:
- why does sinTheta = 5/13 and cosTheta=12/13, i'm not sure how you get a resultant angle from this? In most problems using these functions I usually just input the angle that it given, but obviously there is no angle given and i'm left to calculate it myself but how does -6.5(12/13) and -6.5(5/13) result in the angle being calculated im confused
If anybody could explain the process step by step it would be helpful
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