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Example Question #31 : Determine If Two Vectors Are Parallel Or Perpendicular
Find the angle between the vectors and .
To determine the angle between our two vectors, we can use the fact that for any 2 vectors and , where is the magnitude and is the angle between the 2 vectors, which is what we are looking for.
Working from the left, we can first find the dot product,
Now we'll find the magnitudes of the two vectors by using the Pythagorean Theorem:
take the square root of both sides
Now we can plug these values back into the equation to start solving for theta:
multiply the two numbers inside the radicals:
divide both sides by
take the inverse cosine of both sides
Example Question #542 : Pre Calculus
Find the angle between the vectors and . Note that the first vector is in polar form and the second is in component form.
To find the angle between two vectors, we can use the fact that . In order to find the dot product, we need to convert the vector to component form. This is easiest to do after drawing a quick sketch of the vector:
To find the vertical component, set up an equation involving sine, since the vertical component is the side of a right triangle across from the 20-degree angle:
evaluate the sine of 20, then multiply by 13
To find the horizontal component, set up an equation involving cosine, since the horizontal component is the side of a right triangle adjacent to the 20-degree angle:
evaluate the cosine of 20, then multiply by 13
The component form of this vector can be written as
Next, we can find the magnitude of the vector already in component form by using the Pythagorean Theorem:
take the square root of both sides
Now we have all the information that we need to solve for theta.
Find the dot product for the left side:
which we can now put back in the equation:
now divide both sides by
take invese cosine of both sides
Example Question #33 : Matrices And Vectors
Find where and . Note that is in component form while is in polar form.
First, convert to component form. The easiest way to do that would be with special right triangles, knowing that for a 45-45-90 triangle the ratio of the hypotenuse to both of the legs is . So if the magnitude of the vector is , then the components must both be 3.
This could also be found by setting up and solving the equations:
and
Now that both vectors are component form, we see that we're multiplying
Example Question #31 : Determine If Two Vectors Are Parallel Or Perpendicular
Which of the following best explains whether the two vectors above are perpendicular or parallel?
Parallel, because their dot product is zero.
Perpendicular, because their dot product is zero.
Parallel, because their dot product is one.
Perpendicular, because their dot product is one.
Neither perpendicular nor parallel, because their dot product is neither zero nor one.
Perpendicular, because their dot product is zero.
Two vectors are perpendicular if their dot product is zero, and parallel if their dot product is 1.
Take the dot product of our two vectors to find the answer:
Using our given vectors:
Thus our two vectors are perpendicular.
Example Question #31 : Matrices And Vectors
Find the product.
When we multiply a scalar (regular number) by a matrix, all we need to do is mulitply it to every entry inside the matrix:
Example Question #32 : Matrices And Vectors
Find the product.
When we multiply a scalar (regular number) by a matrix, all we need to do is mulitply it through to every entry inside the matrix:
Example Question #2 : Multiplication Of Matrices
Find the product.
When we multiply a scalar (regular number) by a matrix, all we need to do is mulitply it through to every entry inside the matrix:
Example Question #4 : Find The Product Of A Matrix And A Scalar
We consider the following matrix:
let
what matrix do we get when we perform the following product:
The product depends on knowing the value of m.
The product depends on knowing the size of A
We can't perform this multiplication.
We note k is simply a scalar. To do this multiplication all we need to do is to multply each entry of the matrix by k.
we see that when we multiply we have :
this gives the entry of the matrix kA.
Therefore the resulting matrix is :
Example Question #5 : Find The Product Of A Matrix And A Scalar
We consider the matrix defined below.
Find the sum :
Since we are adding the matrix to itself, we have the same size, we can perform the matrices addition.
We know that when adding matrices, we add them componenwise. Let (i,j) be any entry of the addition matrix. We add the entry form A to the entry from B which is the same as A. This means that to add A+A we simply add each entry of A to itself.
Since the entries from A are the same and given by 1 and the entries from B=A are the same and given by 1, we add these two to obtain:
1+1 and this means that each entry of A+A is 2. We continue in this fashion by additing the entries of A each one to itself n times to obtain that the entries of A+A+....A( n times ) are given by:
Example Question #3 : Multiplication Of Matrices
Let be a positive integer and let be defined as below:
Find the product .
We can't multiply and .
We note n is simply a scalar. To do this multiplication all we need to do is to multply each entry of the matrix by n.
We see that when we multiply we have : .
This means that each entry of the resulting matrix is .
This gives the nA which is :