What is the relationship between magnitudes of the resultant and the equilibrant?

Added to Relationships on March 8, 2010  |   1 Comment 

Reader question: When vectors are added, the sum is called the resultant vector. In the experimental method of adding vectors, you are not actually adding vectors. You are taking three vectors and adding a fourth one to them, so that the result is zero. Since this puts the system in equilibrium, the vector that is [...]