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56. A girl 4 Km towards west, then she walks 3 Km in a direction 30° east of north and stops. Determine the girls displacement from her initial point of departure.

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Vishal Baghel

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$∴$ The girl's displacement from her initial point of departure is $= \frac{- 5}{3} \hat{i} + \frac{3√3}{2} \hat{j}$

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55. Find the scalar components and magnitude of the vector joining the points $P (x_{1}, y_{1}, z_{1}) a n d Q (x_{2}, y_{2}, z_{2})$

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Given,

Point $P (x_{1}, y_{1}, z_{1}) & Q (x_{2}, y_{2}, z_{2})$

$\vec{P Q}$ = Position vector of Q.- Position vector of P

$= (x_{2} - x_{1}) \hat{i} + (y_{2} - y_{1}) \hat{j} + (z_{2} - z_{1}) \hat{k}$

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54. Write down a unit vector in XY-plane making an angle of 30° with the positive direction of x-axis.

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Vishal Baghel

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Let $\vec{r}$ be unit vector in the XY-plane then, $\vec{r} = c o s θ \hat{i} + s i n θ \hat{j}$

$θ$ is the angle made by the unit vector with the positive direction of the X-axis.

Then, $θ = 3 0^{0}$

$∴$ ReQ.uired unit vector $= \frac{}{2} \hat{i} + \frac{1}{2} \hat{j}$

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53. Area of a rectangle having vertices A, B, C and D with position vectors $- \hat{i} + \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k}, \hat{i} + \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k}, a n d - \hat{i} \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k}$ respectively is:

(A) $\frac{1}{2}$

(B) 1

(C) 2

(D) 4

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(c) Given,

$\begin{array}{l} A = - \hat{i} + \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k} \\ B = \hat{i} + \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k} \\ C = \hat{i} - \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k} \\ D = - \hat{i} - \frac{1}{2} \hat{j} + 4 \hat{k} \\ A \vec{B} = (1 + 1) \hat{i} + (\frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{2}) \hat{j} + (4 - 4) \hat{k} \\ = 2 \hat{i} \\ B \vec{C} = (1 - 1) \hat{i} + (- \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{2}) \hat{j} + (4 - 4) \hat{k} \\ = - \hat{j} \end{array}$

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52. Let the vectors $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ such that | $\vec{a}$ | = 3 and | $\vec{b}$ | = √2/3 then $\vec{a} * \vec{b}$ is a unit vector, if the angle between $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ is:

(A) $\frac{π}{6}$

(B) $\frac{π}{4}$

(C) $\frac{π}{3}$

(D) $\frac{π}{2}$

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(B) Given,

$∴$ Hence, $\vec{a} * \vec{b}$ is a unit vector if angle between $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ is $\frac{π}{4}$

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

$a = \vec{i} - \vec{j} + 3 \vec{k} a n d b = 2 \vec{i} - 7 \vec{j} + \vec{k}$

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Given,

$\begin{array}{l} \vec{a} = \hat{i} - \hat{j} + 3 \hat{k} \\ \vec{b} = 2 \hat{i} - 7 \hat{j} + \hat{k} \end{array}$

The area of a parallelogram with $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ as its adjacent sides is given by $| \vec{a} * \vec{b} |$

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50. Find the area of the triangle with vertices A (1, 1, 2), B (2, 3, 5) and C (1, 5, 5).

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Given,

$A (1, 1, 2), B (2, 3, 5) C (1, 5, 5)$

We have,

$\begin{array}{l} A \vec{B} = \hat{i} + 2 \hat{j} + 3 \hat{k} \\ A \vec{C} = 4 \hat{j} + 3 \hat{k} \end{array}$

The area of given triangle is $\frac{1}{2} | A \vec{B} * A \vec{C} |$

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49. If either $\vec{a}$ = 0 and $\vec{b}$ = 0 then $\vec{a} * \vec{b} = 0$ Is the converse true? Justify your answer with an example.

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We take any parallel non- zero vectors so that $\vec{a} * \vec{b} = 0$ .

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48. Let the vectors $\vec{a}, \vec{b}, \vec{c}$ be given as $a_{1} \hat{i} + a_{2} \hat{j} + a_{3} \hat{k}, b_{1} \hat{i} + b_{2} \hat{j} + b_{3} \hat{k}, c_{1} \hat{i} + c_{2} \hat{j} + c_{3} \hat{k}$ then show that $\vec{a} * (\vec{b} + \vec{c}) = \vec{a} * \vec{b} + \vec{a} * \vec{c}$

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Given,

$\begin{array}{l} \vec{a} = a_{1} \hat{i} + a_{2} \hat{j} + a_{3} \hat{k} \\ \vec{b} = b_{1} \hat{i} + b_{2} \hat{j} + b_{3} \hat{k} \\ \vec{c} = c_{1} \hat{i} + c_{2} \hat{j} + c_{3} \hat{k} \\ ∴ (\vec{b} + \vec{c}) = (b_{1} + c_{1}) \hat{i} + (b_{2} + c_{2}) \hat{j} + (b_{3} + c_{3}) \hat{k} \\ N o w, \end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l} = \hat{i} {a_{2} (b_{2} + c_{3}) - a_{3} (b_{2} + c_{2})} - \hat{j} {a_{1} (b_{3} + c_{3}) - a_{3} (b_{1} + c_{1})} \\ + \hat{k} {a_{1} (b_{2} + c_{2}) - a_{2} (b_{1} + c_{1})} \\ = \hat{i} {a_{2} b_{2} + a_{2} c_{3} - a_{3} b_{2} - a_{3} c_{2}} - \hat{j} {a_{1} b_{3} + a_{1} c_{3} - a_{3} b_{1} - a_{3} c_{1}} \\ + \hat{k} {a_{1} b_{2} + a_{1} c_{2} - a_{2} b_{1} - a_{2} c_{2}} - - - - (1) \end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l} = \hat{i} (a_{2} b_{3} - a_{3} b_{2}) - \hat{j} (a_{1} b_{3} - a_{3} b_{1}) + \hat{k} (a_{1} b_{2} - a_{2} b_{1}) - - - - (2) \\ A n d, \end{array}$

$\hat{i} (a_{2} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{2}) - \hat{j} (a_{1} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{1}) + \hat{k} (a_{1} c_{2} - a_{2} c_{1}) - - - - (3)$

Adding (2) and (3), we get

$\begin{array}{l} (\vec{a} * \vec{b}) + (\vec{a} * \vec{c}) = \hat{i} (a_{2} b_{3} - a_{3} b_{2}) - \hat{j} (a_{1} b_{3} - a_{3} b_{1}) + \hat{k} (a_{1} b_{2} - a_{2} b_{1}) \\ + \hat{i} (a_{2} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{2}) - \hat{j} (a_{1} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{1}) + \hat{k} (a_{1} c_{2} - a_{2} c_{1}) \\ (\vec{a} * \vec{b}) + (\vec{a} * \vec{c}) = \hat{i} (a_{2} b_{3} - a_{3} b_{2} + a_{2} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{2}) + \hat{j} (- a_{1} b_{3} + a_{3} b_{1} - a_{1} c_{3} + a_{3} c_{1}) \\ + \hat{k} (a_{1} b_{2} - a_{2} b_{1} + a_{1} c_{2} - a_{2} c_{1}) \\ = \hat{i} (a_{2} b_{3} + a_{2} c_{3} - a_{3} c_{2} - a_{3} b_{2}) - \hat{j} (a_{1} b_{3} + a_{1} c_{3} - a_{3} b_{1} - a_{3} c_{1}) \\ + \hat{k} (a_{1} b_{2} + a_{1} c_{2} - a_{2} b_{1} - a_{2} c_{1}) - - - - - (4) \end{array}$

From (1) and (4), we have

$\vec{a} (\vec{b} + \vec{c}) = \vec{a} * \vec{b} + \vec{a} * \vec{c}$

Hence, proved.

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47. Given that $\vec{a} . \vec{b} = 0$ and $\vec{a} * \vec{b} = 0$ What can you conclude about the vectors $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ ?

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Given,

$\vec{a} . \vec{b} = 0$ and $\vec{a} * \vec{b} = 0$

For,

$\vec{a} . \vec{b} = 0$ , then either $| \vec{a} | = 0$ or $| \vec{b} | = 0$ or $\vec{a} ⊥ \vec{b}$

For,

$\vec{a} * \vec{b} = 0$ , then either $| \vec{a} | = 0$ or $| \vec{b} | = 0$ or $\vec{a} ? \vec{b}$

$∴$ In case $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ are non- zero on both side.

But $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ cannot be both perpendicular and parallel simultaneously.

So, we can conclude that

$| \vec{a} | = 0$ or $| \vec{b} | = 0$

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