Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 9 - Review - Exercises - Page 673: 36

Answer

(a) $1$ (b) No. $60^{\circ}$

Work Step by Step

(a) Given $\vec u=0i+j-k$ and $\vec v=i+j+0k$, by definition the dot product is given by $\vec u\cdot\vec v=0\times1+1\times1-1\times0=1$ (b) Since $\vec u\cdot\vec v\ne0$, the two vectors are not perpendicular to each other. and the angle between them can be found as $cos\theta=\frac{\vec u\cdot\vec v}{|\vec u||\vec v|}=\frac{1}{\sqrt {(0)^2+(1)^2+(-1)^2}\sqrt {(1)^2+(1)^2+(0)^2}}=\frac{1}{2}$, thus $\theta\approx60^{\circ}$
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