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Assignment No 7 (Applications of Vectors)

This document contains 14 multi-part math problems involving vectors and lines in 2D and 3D space. The problems involve finding coordinate vectors, parametric vector forms of lines, determining if points lie on lines, checking if vectors or lines are parallel, finding midpoints and points on lines, determining if sets of points are collinear, finding parametric forms of line segments and rays, and interpreting geometric descriptions of sets of points defined parametrically.

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Assignment No 7 (Applications of Vectors)

This document contains 14 multi-part math problems involving vectors and lines in 2D and 3D space. The problems involve finding coordinate vectors, parametric vector forms of lines, determining if points lie on lines, checking if vectors or lines are parallel, finding midpoints and points on lines, determining if sets of points are collinear, finding parametric forms of line segments and rays, and interpreting geometric descriptions of sets of points defined parametrically.

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Assignment No 7 (Applications of Vectors)

1.Find the coordinate vector for the displacement vector AB and parametric vector forms for
the lines through the points A and B with co-ordinates
(a) A (1, 2), B (2, 7); (b) A (1, 2, -1), B (-1, -1, 5); (c) A (1, 2, 1), B (7, 2, 3);
d) A (1, 2, -1, 3), B (-1, 3, 1, 1);

2. Does the point (3, 5, 7) lie on the line x =(-1, 3, 6) + t(4, 2, 1)

3.Given the following position vectors A, B, C and D are the vectors AB and CD parallel?
(a) A = (1, 2, 3), B = (-2, 3, 4), C = (-3, -4, 7), D = (4, -6, -9).
(b) A = (3, 2, 5), B = (5, -3, -6), C = (-2, 3, 7), D = (0, -2, -4).
(c) A = (12, -4, 6), B = (2, 6, -4), C = (5, -2, 9), D = (0, 3, 4).

Do any of these sets of 4 points form a parallelogram?

4. Find parametric vector forms for the following lines in R2

(a) y = 3x + 4 (b) 3x + 2y = 6 (c) y = -7x


(d) y = 4 (e) x = -2
In each case indicate the direction of the line and a point through which the line passes.
5. Find a parametric vector form and a Cartesian form for each of the following lines
(a) through the points (-4, 1, 3) and (2, 2, 3);
(b) through (1, 2, -3) parallel to the vector (4, -5, 6);
(c) through (1, -1, 1) parallel to the line joining the points (2, 2, 1) and (7, 1, 3);
(d) through (1, 0, 0) parallel to the line joining the points (3, 2, -1) and (3, 5, 2).

6. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.


(a) The lines y = 3x - 4 and x = (2, 1) + λ (4, 12) are parallel.
(b) The lines x = (3, -1) + λ (6, 4) and 2x + 3y = 8 are parallel.
(c) The lines x = (4, -1, 2) + λ (10, 2, 8) and
x + 10 y−7 z+3
= = are parallel.
5 1 4
x + 10 z+3
(d) The lines x = (3, -2, 7) + λ (10, 0, -4) and = , y = −5 are parallel.
5 −3
7. Let A = (2, 3, -1) and B = (4, -5, 7). Find the midpoint of A and B. Find the point Q on the line
through A and B such that B lies between A and Q and BQ is three times as long as AB.

8. The coordinate vectors, relative to the origin O, of the points A and B are respectively a and b.
State, in terms of a and b, the position vector of the point T which lies on AB such that
AT = 2TB .
9. Show that the points A(1, 2, 3), B(3, 8, 1), C(7, 20, -3) are collinear.

10. Show that the points A(-1, 2, 1), B(4, 6, 3), C(-1, 2, -1) are not collinear.

11. Prove that A(1, 2, 1), B(4, 7, 8), C(6, 4, 12) and D(3, -1, 5) are the vertices of a
parallelogram.Draw and label the parallelogram.

12. If A(-1, 3, 4), B(4, 6, 3), C(-1, 2, 1) and D are the vertices of a parallelogram, find all the
possible co-ordinates for the point D.

13. Suppose A and B are points with co-ordinate vectors a and b, respectively. Write down a
parametric vector form for
(a) the line segment AB. (b) the line from B through A.
(c) all points P which lie on the line through A and B such that A is between P and B.

(d) all points Q which lie on the line through A and B and are closer to B than A.
14. Give a geometric interpretation of the following sets. In each set, λ ∈ R .
(a) S = {x : x = (1, 3, 6) + λ (-3, 1, 7) for 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1}.
(b) S = {x : x = (1, 2, 4, 0, -7) + λ (-2, 5, 9, 3, 6) for − 1 ≤ λ ≤ 5 }.
(c) S = {x : x = λ (6, -2, 7, 2, -1, 5) + (1 - λ )(0, 4, 8, 3, -5, 4) for 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1.
(d) S = {x : x = (1, 4, -6, 2) + λ (3, 0, -1, 5) for λ ≥ 0 }
(e) S = {x : x = (3, 1, -4) + λ (6, -2, 7) for | λ |≥ 2 }.

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