What is the meaning of resultant?

Answer 1

To leap back; to rebound., To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil., To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor., A flying back; resilience., That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation., The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Answer 2

It is the single vector that results from two or more different vectorsacting on the same point. E.g.

If you have a simple crane whose rope runs horizontally from the winch to a pulley then vertically to the load, and you have a 100Newton weight on the hook;

the force in the top part of the rope will be 100N,

that in the vertical part will be 100N;

the Resultant force trying to compress the jibwill be

100 X 1.414N = 141.4N at 45º downwardsinto the floor below the winch.

That 141.4 is square-root of 2, because the two lines of rope are at right-angles to each other as is the force in each, and the forces are equal.

If you draw it as a scale diagram whose scale is in force rather than length units you produce a square - take the diagonal for that is the resultant direction. Being a square of side Sits lengthis S(root-2) by Pythagoras and its diagonalis at 45º to the sides!

Answer 3

The resultant is the sum or outcome that occurs when two or more forces or vectors are combined. It represents the combined effect of all the individual forces acting on an object. Mathematically, it is the vector sum of all the forces involved.