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Question
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Review
The sum \(\Sigma{\vec{F}_\mathrm{ext}}\) in Newton's second law involves vector addition. We saw in Chapter 3 that it's usually easiest to add vectors if we use components, so we'll often use Equation 4-2 in component form: