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MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
IIT-JAM/CSIR-NET-JRF/GATE/TIFR/JEST
ASSIGNMENT - VECTOR ALGEBRA
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1. The angle between the vectors a  iˆ  ˆj and (d) 1,1, 0  can be written as the linear com-
 2
b  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ is [JNU 2019]
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(a) 0 (b) 45 bination of  0,1,1 and 1 1, 0,1
2 2
1  1 
 2 
(c) cos  
1
(d) cos  3  . 
5. Let a and b be two distinct three-dimensional
 3   
2. The three vectors vectors. Then the component of b that is per-
  
A  3iˆ  2 ˆj  5kˆ, B  7 ˆi  5 ˆj  kˆ pendicular to a is given by
 [CSIR June-2011]
and C  4iˆ  2 ˆj  9kˆ are coplanar when  takes
     
the value [HCU 2019]
(a)

a b a  (b)
b  a b  
(a) 8.5 (b) 12.5 a2 b2
    
3.
(c) 10.5 (d) 6.5
Given the points P(0, 0, 0), Q (1, 1, 1), (c)
 
a.b b
(c)  
b .a a
R (1, 1, 0) and S (0, 1, 1) in three-dimensional b2 a2
space. What is the shortest distence between lines 6. A unit vector n̂ on the x-y plane is at angle of
PQ and RS
120° with respect to iˆ . The angle between the
1  
(a) 1 (b)
3 vectors u  aiˆ  bnˆ and v  anˆ  biˆ will be 600
if [CSIR June-2013]
1 1
(c) (d) [JNU 2018]
5 6 (a) b  3a / 2 (b) b  2a / 3
1 (c) b  a / 2 (d) b  a
4. Consider the set of vectors 1,1, 0  ,
2 7. Which of the following vectors is orthogonal to
1
 0,1,1 and 1 1, 0,1  
the vector aiˆ  bjˆ , where a and b ( a  b) are
2 2
[GATE 2001] constants and iˆ and ˆj are unit orthogonal vec-
(a) The three vectors are orthonormal tors? [GATE 2002]
(b) The three vectors are linearly independent
(a) biˆ  ajˆ (b)  aiˆ  bjˆ
(c) The three vectors cannot form a basis in a three
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8. The value of t for which three vectors   
13. Given any three non-zero vectors A, B and C ,
  
1  t  ,0,0 , 1, 1  t  ,0  and 1,11  t    
their triple product A. B  C vanishes if
are linearly dependent is (a) They are perpendicular to each other
(a) 1 (b) 0 (b) Any two of them are perpendicular
(c) 2 (d) -1 (c) Any two of them are parallel.
9. Identify the CORRECT statement for the (d) They are non-coplanar.
 
 14. If A  t  is a vector of constant magnitude, which
following vectors a  3iˆ  2 ˆj and b  iˆ  2 ˆj .
of the following is true?
[GATE 2012]
 
  dA d2A
(a) the vectors a and b are linearly independent. (a) 0 (b) 0
dt dt 2

(b) the vectors a and b are linearly dependent.  
dA  dA 
  (c) .A  0 (d) A0
(c) the vectors a and b are orthogonal. dt dt
  [GATE 2000]
(d) the vectors a and b are normalised.
 
10. Given the four vectors, 15. Given V1  iˆ  ˆj and V2  2iˆ  3 ˆj  2kˆ which
   
1  3  2  3  
one of the following V3 makes V1,V2 ,V3 a com- 
       
u1   2  , u2   5  , u3   4  , u4   6  , plete set for a three dimensional real linear vector
1  1   8   12  space [Gate 2018]
       
the linearly independent pair is  
(a) V3  iˆ  ˆj  4kˆ (b) V3  2iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ
[GATE 2005]
 
(c) V3  iˆ  2 ˆj  6kˆ (d) V3  2iˆ  ˆj  4kˆ
(a) u1 , u2 (b) u1 , u3
 
(c) u1 , u4 (d) u3 , u4
16. 
The two vectors P  iˆ, q  i  ˆj / 2 are 
11. Any arbitrary vector in a three dimensional cartesian
space can be expressed as a linear combination [GATE 2003]
of the following number of linearly independent
(a) related by a rotation .
vectors.
(b) related by a reflection through x-y plane.
(a) Arbitrary number (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) 3 (c) related by an inversion.
12. Consider the set of vectors in three-dimentional (d) not linearly independent.
real vector space
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17. Consider the three vectors v1  2iˆ  3kˆ,
R , S  {1,1,1 , 1, 1,1 , 1,1, 1} . Which of
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the following statement is true. [GATE 2009]  

v2  i  2 ˆj  2kˆ and v3  5i  ˆj  kˆ where
(a) S is not a linearly independent set.
(b) S is a basis for R 3 . i, ˆj and k̂ are the standard unit vecotrs in a three-

(c) The vectors in S are orthogonal dimensional Euclidean space. These vectors will
(d) An orthogonal set of vectors cannot be gener- be linearly dependent if the value of  is
ated from S. [NET June 2018]

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   
(a) 31/4 (b) 23/4
 
(a) A  B  C lie in the plane of D .
(c) 27/4 (d) 0
   
18.
     
If A  2iˆ  3 ˆj  kˆ and A.B  0  A  B , then B  
(b) A  B  C does not lie in the plane of D .
is    
   
(c) A  B  C  D  0 
(a) perpendicular to A
     
(b) parallel to A

  
(d) A  B .C  B  A .D 
(c) 3iˆ  3 ˆj  kˆ 22. Which of the following relations give a necessary
 
and sufficient condition for there vectors A, B and
(d) 0   
   
 C to be coplanar if A  B  C and A, B, C  0 .
19. Two time dependent non-zero vectors u  t  and
      
 (a) A  B  C  0 (b) A  B  B  C
v  t  , which are not initially parallel to each other,,
     

 dv  du
 
(c) A  B  C  0  (d) A  B  C
satisfy u   v   0 at all time t. If the area
dt dt   
  23. If A, B and C are three vector such that
of the parallelogram formed by u  t  and v  t       
   
A  B  C  2iˆ and B  A  C  2iˆ then
be A  t  and the unit normal vector to it be n̂  t  ,   
then 
the value of C  B  A is 
(a) A  t  increases linearly with t, but n̂  t  is a (a) 4iˆ
constant
(b) 4iˆ
(b) A  t  increases linearly with t , and n̂  t  ro-
  (c) 0
tates about u  t   v  t 
(d) Given information is insufficient
(c) A  t  is a constant, but n̂  t  rotates about   
24. If u , v ,  are non-coplanar vectors and p, q are
 
u t   v t  real numbers, then the equality
        
3u   pv  p   pv    qu   2   qv  qu   0
(d) A  t  and n̂  t  are constants
holds for
[NET Nov 2020]
20. Find a unit vector perpendicular to both
(a) More than two but not all values of  p, q 
 
A  2iˆ  ˆj  kˆ and B  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ
(b) All values of  p, q 
(a)  ĵ  kˆ (b) ĵ  kˆ
(c) Exactly one value of  p, q 
 ˆj kˆ ˆj kˆ
(c)  (d)  (d) Exactly two values of  p, q 
Q 2 2 2
    25. What are the values of p and q in above question
21. If A, B, C and D are four coplanar vectors, then
(a) p  q  0 (b) p  1, q  0
which of the following relations is not TRUE ?

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(c) p  q  1 (d) p  0, q  1   
31. Let a , b , c be three unit vectors such that
  
 3a  4b  5c  0 . Then which of the following
26. Let a  ˆj  kˆ and c  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ . Then the vec-
   statements is/are TRUE ?
tor b satisfying a  b  c  0 and a.b  3 is

(a) a is parallel to b
(a) iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ (b) 2iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ

(b) a is perpendicular to b
(c) iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ (d) iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ 
(c) a is neither parallel nor perpendicular to b

27. The vectors a and b are not perpendicular and
       
 (d) a , b , c are coplanar
c and d are two vectors satisfying b  c  b  d
 
and a  d  0 . Then, the vector d is equal to 32. Three vectors is R 3 are linearly dependent if and
only if

  b  c    
  a c   (a) their scalar triple prduct is zero
(a) b      c (b) c     b
 a b   a b 
(b) their scalar tiple prduct is non-zero

  b  c    
  a c  
(c) the vectors are mutually orthrogonal
(c) b      c (d) c      b (d) the vectors are not mutually orthogonal
 a b   a b 
33. Which of the following given vectors are linearly
  1
28. If a 
1
10

3iˆ  kˆ and  
b  2iˆ  3 ˆj  6kˆ ,
7
independent.

(a) 3iˆ  2 ˆj ; iˆ  ˆj
     

then the value of 2a  b     
.  a  b  a  2b 
 
(b) 3iˆ  6 ˆj  kˆ; 8iˆ  2 ˆj  4kˆ; iˆ  ˆj  kˆ
is
(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 8iˆ  6 ˆj ; 2iˆ  4 ˆj; iˆ  kˆ
(c) –5 (d) –3
(d) 12iˆ  3kˆ; iˆ  2 ˆj  kˆ;  3iˆ  4 ˆj
  
29. Let a , b , c be three non zero vector which are
34. Find the equation of a line passing through the point
 
pairwise non collinear. If a  3b is collinear with P  2, 3, 4  and perpendicular to the plane with
   
c and b  2c is collinear with a , then equation 2 x  y  3 z  4 .
  
a  3b  6c is
2 1 
(a) a  c (b) a 35. Do the vectors   and   form a basis of
0  2

(c) c (d) 0 2 ?
30. Let â and b̂ be two unit vectors. If the vectors 36. Determine whether the given vectors
 
c  aˆ  2bˆ and d  5aˆ  4bˆ are perpendicular to 1  2 3  2
each other, then the angle between â and b̂ is V1  1  ;V2  1  ;V3  0  ;V4   2 
  0  1  1   2 
(a) (b)
4 6
are linear independent or not?
 
(c) (d)
2 3
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
37. Suppose the three vectors u1 , u 2 , u3   n are lin- (c) 2a.b (d) 2a.c
early independent, then the set  
43. If given r1  2iˆ  ˆj  kˆ; r2  iˆ  3 ˆj  2kˆ and
u1  u2 , u2  u3 , u3  u1 is linearly____.  
r3  2iˆ  ˆj  3kˆ and r4  3iˆ  2 ˆj  5kˆ , then the
 
38. If a  2iˆ  ˆj  kˆ and b  2 ˆj  kˆ , find a unit vec- scalars a, b, c such that

tor in the direction of a  b    
r4  ar1  br2  cr3 , are

(a)
3

1 ˆ ˆ ˆ
2i  j  k  (b)
3

1 ˆ ˆ
2i  j  2kˆ  (a) a  2, b  1, c  3

(b) a  2, b  1, c  3
1

(c) 2iˆ  ˆj  kˆ
3
 1

(d) 2iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ
3
 (c) a  2, b  1, c  3

(d) a  2, b  1, c  3

39. If aˆ , bˆ, cˆ are unit vectors such that aˆ  bˆ  0 ,
 2  2
 aˆ  cˆ    bˆ  cˆ   0 and 44. The quantity a  b  a.b is equivalent to

   2 2 2
 
cˆ   aˆ   bˆ   a  b , where  ,  and  are (a) a  b (b) a b
scalars then
 2   
(c) a.b (d) a.b a  b
(a)  2   2  1
45. The equation of plane determined by (2, –1, 1),
(b)     1 (3, 2, –1) and (–1, 3, 2) is

(c)    1   2   2  1
2 (a) 11x  5 y  13 z  30

(b) 11x  5 y  13 z  30
(d)  2   2  1
 (c) 11x  5 y  13 z  0
 
40. Let a  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ, b  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ and c  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ
be three vectors. A vector v in the plane of a (d) 11x  5 y  13 z  0

 1 46. The angle between the planes 3 x  6 y  2 z  15

and b , whose projection on c is , is given
5 and 2 x  y  2 z  5 is
by
1  2  1  4 

(a) iˆ  3 ˆj  3 xˆ (b) 3iˆ  3 ˆj  kˆ (a) cos   (b) cos  

 21   21 

(c) 3iˆ  ˆj  3kˆ (d) iˆ  3 ˆj  3kˆ 1  1  1  2 

(c) cos   (d) cos  
7 7
41. Find the equation of plane passing through the point   
(1, 0, –2) and perpendicular to the planes 47. If b , c , d are constant vectors, then
2 x  y  z  2; x  y  z  3 .    
r  t   bt 2  ct  d is a path of a point moving
     
42.   
The resultant of a  b . b  c   c  a  is   with
(a) zero force (b) constant momentum
     

(a) 2a. c  b  
(b) 2a. b  c  (c) zero acceleration (d) constant acceleration

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48. A vector is transformed from one frame to an-
other by V '  AV , where

 1 3
 
 2 0 2 
A 0 1 0 
 
 3 1 
 2 0 2 

This transformation represents a rotation of
(a) 30° clockwise about the z-axis.
(b) 30° counter-clockwise about the x-axis.
(c) 60° counter-clockwise about the y-axis.
(d) 60° counter-clockwise about the x-axis.

ANSWER KEY

1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (*)

4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (c)
7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (a)
10. (d) 11. (d) 12. (b)
13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (d)
16. (a) 17. (a) 18. (d)
19. (d) 20. (c) 21. (b)
22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (c)
25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (b)
28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (c,d) 32. (a,c) 33. (a,b,c,d)
34. (*) 35. (*)
36. (Linearly Dependent)
37. (Independent) 38. (b)
39. (c) 40. (c) 41. (*)
42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (b)
45. (a) 46. (b) 47. (d)
48. (c)

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