IMPORTANT QUESTIONS VECTOR 3D LINE

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7.

Find a vector in the direction of vector

that has magnitude 7 units.

Find

, if two vectors are such that

Find the value of Find the projection of the vector If are any two vectors such that then what is the angle between

? Find the unit vector paralle to vactors 3+ - 3k and -2 - + 3 k Find the value of if + 2 + k and 5 - 9 + 2k are perpendicular . If Find the unit vector in the direction of find the angle between and .

8. 9.

10. Write the vector equation and the direction ratio of the line
11. Cartesian equations of a line AB are:-

Write the equation of a line passing through (1, 2, 3) parallel to AB.

12. Write the position vector of a point dividing the line segment joining points A and B with position
Vectors externally in the ratio 1 : 3 , where and .

13. If 14. If
= 2j+2 k b = 3i 5k find

find a unit vector in the direction of

15. Find so that vectors are perpendicular . 16. Find the Cartesian and vector equations of a line which passes through the point (1,2,3) and is
parallel to the line Find the unit vector perpendicular to the vectors a = i + 3j + 4k and b = 2i j 3k. What is the value of i ( j x k ) + j ( k x i ) + k ( i x j ) ? Write all unit vector in X Y plane. Find a vector of magnitude 9 units, which is perpendicular to both the vectors

17. 18. 19. 20.

21. Find , when the projection of on is 22. If a, b, and c are unit vectors such that 23. Find the value of x for which 25. Find the angle between two vectors
that is a unit vector.

. , then find the Value of

24. Find the direction cosines of a line that makes equal angle with the coordinate axes with magnitude and 2 respectively and such

26. Find 27. Find 28. Find the scalar components of a unit vector which is perpendicular to the vectors
.

29. The Cartesian equations of a line AB are

. Find the direction ratios of the

30. If is a unit vector 31. Find the value of

35. Find the angle between the line

and

36. The equation of a line 3x + 1 = 6y 2 = 1 z. Find the d.rs and d.cs of the line 37. Find the equation of line which passes through the point (1, -1, 2) and parallel to to

38. Find angle betweenlines r= 4i 3j + k+ (3i + 2j + 6k)andr = 8i 2k + (i + 2j + 2k)

39. If 40. If

41. Three vectors

satisfy the condition

Evaluate the quantity

42. The Cartesian equations of a line AB are

. Find the direction ratios of

the line AB. 43. Find direction cosines of a line which is equally inclined with the axes. 44. If a line makes angles /4 with each of X axis and Y-axis, then what angle does it makes with the Z- axis. 45. If | a + b | = | a - b | then find the angle between a and b 46. If a is a unit vector and ( x - a ).( x + a ) = 8 , then find | x |. 47. What is the angle between vectors with magnitude respectively? 48. If a is unit vector and (x a). (x + a) = 8, then find |x|. 49. Find a unit vector perpendicular to each of the vectors

50. If 51. The Cartesian equation of a line AB is .

52. If

and

, find a unit vector parallel to the vector

53. Find the direction cosine of the line which is perpendicular to lines whose direction cosine are proportional 1,-2,-2 and 0,2,1

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1. 2.

If

Show that the points A, B, C with position vectors respectively are collinear

3. 4.

If the sum of two unit vectors is a unit vector, Prove that the magnitude of their difference is Show that the points A, B and C with position vectors,

respectively, form the vertices of a right angled triangle.

5.

If a unit vector

makes angles .

and

then find and hence

the components of

6.

Let

, and be three

vectors such that and each one of them being perpendicular to the sum of other two, Find

7.

Find the area of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are determined by the vectors

8.

The scalar product of the vector

with a unit vector along the sum of vectors Find the value of .

9.

If

is any vector in space show tha

10. If vectors
Find (a.b+b.c+c.a)

, and are such | a + b + c | =0, and | a | = 6, | b | = 8 and | c | = 10.

11. Find the vector of magnitude 5 units which is perpendicular to both the vectors

12. Find the values of

13. Show that area of parallelogram having diagonals (3i + j 2k) and (i 3j + 4k) is 5 3 sq unit.

14. Find the shortest distance between the lines, whose equations are

15. Find shortest distance between the lines r = i + j + (2i j + k), r = 2i + j k + (3i 5j + 2k)

16. If

are unit vectors such that .

then find the value of

17. By computing the shortest distance, determine whether the following pair of lines intersect or not:

18. d1 and d2 are the diagonals of a parallelogram with sides a and b.Express a and b in terms of d1
and d2 and find the area of the parallelogram ;d1 = i + 2 j + 3 k ;d2 = 3 i - 2 j + k

19. Find the shortest distance between the following pairs of line r = (1 t ) i + ( t 2 ) j + ( 3 + 2t ) k and r = ( s + 1) i + ( 2s 1) j + ( 2s + 1 ) k.

20. Find the equations of the line through the intersection of the lines

and and parallel to

the line

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22. If and , and find angle between

find the angle

23. For vectors and prove that : 24. If with reference to a right handed system of mutually perpendicular unit vectors
and to is perpendicular to Express in the form where , we have ,is parallel

25. Find the point on line 26. Dot product of vector with vectors
the vector.

at a distance 32 from the point ( 1, 2, 3) are respectively -1,6 & 5 find

27. Find image of the point (1,0,2) in the line passing through (2,1,3) and perpendicular to the lines

28. Find the value of k so that the lines

and

29. . If 30. If 31. If

are any two non zero vectors.then prove that

Find a vector

which is

perpendicular to 32. Find the unit vector perpendicular to the plane ABC, where the position vectors of A, B & C are 2i j + k, 3 i + j + 2 k & - 2 j + 3 k respectively. 33. Dot product of a vector with the vector i + j - 3 k , i + 3 k - 2 k and 2 i + j + 4 k are 0, 5 and 8 respectively.find vector.

34. find the shortest distance between the lines

=(1 - t ) i + (t - 2) j + ( 3 - 2 t ) k and r = ( s + 1 ) i +

35. find the equation of the line passing through the point(1,2,3) and parpendicular to lines
and 36. The scalar product of the vector i + j + k with a unit vector along the sum of vectors 2i + 2j 5k and i + 2j + 3k is equal to one. Find the value of . 37. If a x b = c xd =, a x c = b xd, show that (a d) is parallel to (b c).

38. Find the foot of perpendicular from P(1, 2, 3) on the line

Also find the

39. Determine whether or not the following pair of lines intersect. If these intersect, then find the point of intersection, otherwise obtain the shortest distance between them: r = i + j k + (3 i j ) and r =4ik+(2i+3k)

40. Find the foot of perpendicular from the point (0, 2, 7) on the line

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41. Find the equations of line passing through (3, 4, 7) and perpendicular to the lines

42. Show that the lines intersect each other: r = -i 3j 5k + (3i + 5j + 7k) and r = 2i + 4j + 6k + (i + 3j + 5k) 43. Find the shortest distance between the lines given by and