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The document discusses vector products and their properties. It provides examples of calculating the cross product of two vectors, which represents the area of the parallelogram formed by the vectors. It also describes how the cross product of two non-zero vectors gives a unit vector perpendicular to both vectors. Several problems are given as examples, such as calculating the cross product and area of shapes formed by vectors.

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DPP

The document discusses vector products and their properties. It provides examples of calculating the cross product of two vectors, which represents the area of the parallelogram formed by the vectors. It also describes how the cross product of two non-zero vectors gives a unit vector perpendicular to both vectors. Several problems are given as examples, such as calculating the cross product and area of shapes formed by vectors.

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S R

 M
P Q
a
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 Now, area of parallelogram = | PQ | · | SM | = | PQ · | PS | sin =  a |·| b | sin  = | a × b | hence cross
product of two vectors represents the area of parallelogram formed by it. It is worth noting that area
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vector a × b acts along the perpendicular to the plane of two vectors a and b .

 UNIT VECTOR PERPENDICULAR TO TWO GIVEN VECTORS


Let be a unit vector perpendicular to two (non-zero) vectors a, b and positive for right handed rotation from
a to b and  be the angle between the vectors a, b then
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a × b = | a | | b | sin  n̂
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| a × b | = | a | | b | sin 
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Thus we get = a × b / | a × b | = n̂ .

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Q-1. Find a × b and b × a if
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(i) a = 3 k̂ + 4 ˆj , b = î + ˆj – k̂
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(ii) a = (2, –1, 1) ; b = (3, 4, –1)
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Q-2. If a = 3 î + ˆj + 2 k̂ and b = 2 î – 2 ˆj + 4 k̂
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(i) find the magnitude of a × b
(ii) find a unit vector perpendicular to both a and b.
(iii) find the cosine and sine of the angle between the vectors a and b
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Q-3. The vectors from origin to the points A and B are a = 3iˆ  6ˆj  2kˆ and b = 2iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ respectively..
Find the area of :
(i) the triangle OAB
(ii) the parallelogram formed by OA and OB as adjacent sides.

VECTOR PRODUCT

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1. If F  2iˆ  3 ˆj  kˆ and r  iˆ  ˆj  6kˆ find r  F

(1) 17i  13 j  5k (2) 17i  13 j  5k (3) 3i  4 j  5k (4) 3i  4 j  5k

2. Two sides of a triangle are given by i  j  k and i  2j  3k , then area of triangle is

(1) 26 (2) 26 / 2 (3) 46 (4) 26


3. The magnitude of scalar and vector products of two vectors are 144 and 48 3 respectively. What is the angle
between the two vectors ?
(1) 300 (2) 450 (3) 600 (4) 900

4.    
Area of a parallelogram formed by vectors 3iˆ - 2jˆ + kˆ m and ˆi + 2jˆ + 3kˆ m as adjacent sides is

(1) 3 8 m 2 (2) 24 m2 (3) 8 3m 2 (4) 4 3m 2


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5. Find the values of x and y for which vectors A  6i  x j  2k and B  5i  6 j  yk may be parallel

2 36 5 15 23 36 15
(1) x  0, y  (2) x  ,y (3) x  ,y (4) x  ,y
3 5 3 3 5 3 14
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6.  A B   B A is equal to
(1) 2 AB (2) A2 B2 (3) zero (4) null vector
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7. If A and B are two vectors, then which of the following is wrong ?
               
(1) A.B  B. A (2) A  B  B  A (3) A B  B  A (4) A B  B  A
        
8. If none of the vectors A, B and C are zero and if AB  0 and BC  0 the value of AC is
(1) Unity (2) Zero (3) B2 (4) AC cos 
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9. If A , B and C are coplanar vectors, then
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(1) A.B C  0   
(2) A B .C  0

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 
(3) A.B .C  0 (4) all the above are true

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10. If A along North and B along vertically upward the direction of A  B is along
(1) west (2) south (3) east (4) vertically downwards
ANSWER KEY

1. 3 2. 4 3. 3 4. 2 5. 4
6. 1 7. 4 8. 3 9. 1 10. 2

ANSWER KEY

1. 1 2. 2 3. 1 4. 3 5. 2
6. 4 7. 3 8. 2 9. 2 10. 3

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