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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Gettysburg_College/Gettysburg_College_Physics_for_Physics_Majors/04%3A_C4)_Systems_and_The_Center_of_Mass/4.03%3A_Reference_Frame_Changes_and_Relative_Motion
      From all this you can see how to add vectors: algebraically, you just add their components separately, as in Eqs. (???); graphically, you draw them so the tip of one vector coincides with the ...From all this you can see how to add vectors: algebraically, you just add their components separately, as in Eqs. (???); graphically, you draw them so the tip of one vector coincides with the tail of the other (we call this “tip-to-tail”), and then draw the sum vector from the tail of the first one to the tip of the other one. (In general, to get two arbitrary vectors tip-to-tail you may need to displace one of them; this is OK provided you do not change its orientation, that is, provid…

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