Question: Problem 2 Even though visualizations are useful for us to gain intuitions, in practice it's convenient to decompose vectors into components and compute the algebra

Problem 2
Even though visualizations are useful for us to gain intuitions, in practice it's convenient to decompose vectors into components and compute the algebra with their components. The vector hat(x) denotes a unit vector (i.e. a vector whose length is one) that points in the positive x-direction, and similarly for hat(y). With this notation, for example, one can think of a vector vec(V)=5hat(x)+3hat(y) as literally a vector 5hat(x) plus another vector 3hat(y). When expressing the vector vec(V) in this fashion, we sometimes say that we express the vector vec(V) in the component form. Equivalently, one may also denote vec(V) as vec(V)=(5,3).
(a) Draw the vector vec(V) in the grid below.
(b) Based on the Pythagorean theorem, find the magnitude |vec(V)| of the vector vec(V).(The magnitude of a vector is its length.)
 Problem 2 Even though visualizations are useful for us to gain

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