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Math 231 Name:

WRITTEN HOMEWORK 3

Instructions:
ˆ Answers to these problems must uploaded to Canvas. You should write down your answers separately in any blank papers.
Answers must be organized and legible. Points may be deducted if anything is unclear about the process of your work or if you
fail to mark which page a problem is on during the upload process..
ˆ Points will be deducted for incomplete reasoning and disorganized work (even if your answers are correct).

1. Find the equations of the planes described below.


(a) The plane containing the point P = (1, 2, 3) that is parallel to the plane 4x − 5y + 6z = 7.
(b) The plane containing the point Q = (1, 0, 1) that is perpendicular to the vector ⟨1, 0, −2⟩.
2. A triangle is formed by the points P = (1, 0, 1), Q = (−1, 2, 0), and R = (1, 2, 2).
(a) Sketch the triangle.
(b) Find the vector and scalar equations of the plane containing this triangle.
(c) Find the area of the tiangle.
−−→ −→
3. Consider the points P = (1, 0, 1), Q = (−1, 2, 0), R = (1, 2, 2), and S = (5, 3, 2). Using vectors v = P Q, w = P R, and
−→
u = P S, determine:

(a) The area of the parallelogram formed by vectors v and w.


(b) The volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the vectors v, w, and u.

4. Consider a parallelogram generated by the vectors ⟨1, y, 2⟩ and ⟨1, 0, 1⟩. For what value(s) of y will the parallelogram
have an areas of 8 square units?
5. Determine the smallest angle between the pair of planes. x + 2y + 3z = 4 and ⟨4, 5, 6⟩ · ⟨x − 7, y − 8, z − 9⟩ = 0.
6. Consider the quadric surface x2 + 4y 2 + 9z 2 = 36 which is centered at (0,0,0). Answer the following questions.
(a) What type of quadric surface is described by the equation?
(b) Write an equation for the quadric surface that is shifted so that the new center is (1,2,3)
7. Where does the line r(t) = ⟨1, 0, 0⟩ + t⟨−1, −3, 2⟩ intersect the plane 3x − y − z = 2, if at all?
8. Consider the curve r(t) = ⟨t2 − 4t, −3t + 1, −2t2 + 5t + 4⟩. This is called a planar curve, which means it lies entirely
on a single plane. Find an equation for the plane on which this curve lies.
9. Identify the following quadric surfaces, and sketch a graph using at least three traces for each surface. Do not use
technology to graph these.

(a) z = 4 − x2 + y 2

(b) x2 + 4z 2 = 16

(c) x2 + y 2 + 4z 2 = 16

(d) x2 − 9y 2 + 4z 2 = 36
10. Given the quadric surface z = 3x2 + 2y2 answer each of the following questions.
(a) What type of quadric surface is it? How do you know? Provide the evidence supporting how you classified the
quadric surface.
(b) Determine the intersection points of the surface with the line r(t) = ⟨−t, 2t, 2 + t⟩.

11. (Extra credit) When a charged particle moves with velocity v through a magnetic field B, a force due to the magnetic
field FB acts on the charged particle. This occurs according to the cross-product:

FB = qv × B

where q is the charge of the particle.

(a) If a particle of charge q = 13.4 × 10−6 C, where the unit C is a Coulomb, moves according to the velocity
vector v = ⟨1, 5, 2⟩ and the magnetic field vector is B = ⟨4, 2, −1⟩, find the force vector FB that is acting on
the particle.
(b) What is the magnitude of the force on the particle?
(c) Sketch the right-handed system {v, B, FB } and roughly indicate the trajectory of the particle.

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