What does N Hat mean in physics?

The vector n̂ (n hat) is a unit vector perpendicular to the plane formed by the two vectors. Applying this corollary to the unit vectors means that the cross product of any unit vector with itself is zero.

What are the x and y components of a vector?

The component that pushes right or left is called the x-component, and the part that pushes up or down is called the y-component. Mathematically, the components act like shadows of the force vector on the coordinate axes.

How do you find the x and y components of acceleration?

In the x direction, the spacecraft in Figure 3.5 has an initial velocity component of v0x = +22 m/s and an acceleration component of ax = +24 m/s2….

What does H hat mean?

hat tip
Along with the abundant anonymous nastiness there is also the genteel and unassuming abbreviation h/t (also styled HT or ht). It means “hat tip,” and it harks back to a time when fedoras adorned not the heads of hipsters but those of fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons.

What does X represent in kinematics?

Building on what you have learned so far and what Galileo presented, we have what my physics teacher, Glenn Glazier, liked to call the Five Sacred Equations of Kinematics for constant acceleration. In these equations, v is velocity, x is position, t is time, and a is acceleration. Remember, Δ means change in.

What is the acceleration in the x direction What is the acceleration in the y direction?

0m/s2
The acceleration in the y direction is equal to the gravitational field strength of the earth, which is -9.8m/s2. The acceleration in the x direction is equal to 0m/s2 because we have assumed no air resistance.

What is Y short for?