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Dot Product Problems

This document discusses computing dot products of vectors and finding the angle between vectors using dot products. It provides examples of computing dot products of given vectors and using dot products and lengths to find the length of an unknown vector when given the angle and dot product between the vectors.

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Dot Product Problems

This document discusses computing dot products of vectors and finding the angle between vectors using dot products. It provides examples of computing dot products of given vectors and using dot products and lengths to find the length of an unknown vector when given the angle and dot product between the vectors.

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Dot product problems

1. a) Compute 1, 2, 4 2, 3, 5. b) Is the angle between these two vectors acute, obtuse or right? Answer: a) 1, 2, 4 2, 3, 5 = 1 2 + 2 3 4 5 = 12. b) Let be the angle between the vectors. Since the dot product is negative we have cos < 0, which means > /2. The angle is obtuse. 2. Suppose B = 2, 2, 1. Suppose also that B makes an angle of 30 with A and AB = 6. Find |A|. Answer: Since 300 = /6 radians and |B| = 3 we get 3 4 6 = A B = |A||B| cos(/6) = |A| 3 |A| = . 2 3

3. If A B = 0 what is the angle between A and B? Answer: /2.

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18.02SC Multivariable Calculus


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