Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fall 2013
Review 1
On the common website, there is more material to help you review for the midterm.
Consider our usual system of coordinates with origin O = (0, 0, 0) and axes given by the unit
vectors ~i, ~j and ~k. Recall that we have ~i ~j = ~k.
Problem 1. Let ~a = ~i + ~k and ~b = 2~i + 2~j.
1. Find the cosine of the angle between ~a and ~b.
2. What is the area of the parallelogram determined by ~a and ~b ?
3. Find two unit vectors orthogonal to both ~a and ~b.
4. We consider the point P = (1, 2, 3).
Problem 2. 1. Why do we know that the planes P3 and P4 with respective equations
6x + 12y 24z = 48 and x + 2y 4z = 7 are parallel ?
2. We want to compute the distance between the point = (3, 5, 2) and P3 .
(a) First we need a point on P3 : find k such that the point A = (0, 0, k) lies on the
plane P3 .
~ which is normal to P3 .
(b) Find a vector N
(c) Convince yourself that the distance from to P3 is equal to the magnitude of the
4. Find the intersection between P4 and the line with parametric equation
x = 1 + 3t, y = 1 + t, z = 2t.
Problem 3. Let L be the line parametric equation
x = 1 3t, y = 1 + 2t, z = 7 + 2t
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