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The document contains a tutorial with various mathematical problems related to planes, straight lines, cylinders, and spheres. It includes tasks such as finding direction ratios, proving collinearity, calculating angles between lines and planes, and determining equations for geometric shapes. The problems are designed to enhance understanding of three-dimensional geometry concepts.

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Tutorial Sheet1

The document contains a tutorial with various mathematical problems related to planes, straight lines, cylinders, and spheres. It includes tasks such as finding direction ratios, proving collinearity, calculating angles between lines and planes, and determining equations for geometric shapes. The problems are designed to enhance understanding of three-dimensional geometry concepts.

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Tutorial 1

Planes:

1. Find the direction ratios and direction cosines of the line joining the points P(4, 2, –
5) and Q(– 2, 0, – 8).
2. Prove that, the points (1, 2, 3), (4, 0, 4) and (– 2, 4, 2) are collinear.
3. Find the angle between the lines joining A(1, 1, 0), B(2, 1, – 1) and C(– 1, 1, 2), D(1, 0,
– 1).
4. Find the direction cosines of the normal to the plane 3x + 2y + 5z + 7 = 0.
5. Find the equation of the plane which passes through the point (3, – 3, 1) and is
perpendicular to the line joining (3, 2, – 1) and (2, – 1, 5).
6. . Find the equation of the plane through (1, 2, 3) and parallel to the plane 4x + 5y – 3z
= 7.
7. Find the equation of the plane bisecting perpendicularly the line joining A(4, 5, 7)
and B(1, 0, 2).
8. A plane contains the points A(– 4, 9, – 9) and B(5, – 9, 6) and is perpendicular to the
line which joins B and C(4, – 6, k). Evaluate k and find the equation of the plane.
9. Find the angle between the planes 2x + 3y – 5z = 6, 3x + 8y + 6z = 9.
10. Find the equations of the planes parallel to the plane x – 2y + 2z – 3 = 0 whose
perpendicular distance from (1, 2, 3) is 1.
11. Find the equation of the plane through (1, – 2, 2) and (– 3, 1, – 2) and perpendicular
to the plane 2x + y – z + 6 = 0.
12. Find the equation of the plane through the point (1, 0, – 2) and perpendicular to the
planes 2x + y – z = 2 and x – y – z = 3.
13. Find the equation of the plane through the points (2, 2, 1), (1, – 2, 3) and parallel to
the line joining the points (2, 1, – 3), (– 1, 5, 8).
14. Find the equation of the plane passing through (2, 5, 1), perpendicular to the plane
7x – 8y + z = 2 and parallel to the plane with direction ratios (3, – 1, 2).

Straight Lines:

1. Find the equation to the line which passes through (1, 4, –1) and has direction
ratios 2, –1, 4.
2. Find the equation of the line passing through (2, 3, 4) and parallel to y-axis.
3. Find the equation of the line joining the points (1, 2, 3) and (0, 1, 2).
(𝑥−1) (𝑦−2) 𝑧−3 (𝑥−4) (𝑦−5) 𝑧−6
4. Find the angle between the lines = = 𝑎𝑛𝑑 = =
1 0 1 3 4 5
(𝑥−1) (𝑦−4) 𝑧+1 (𝑥+1) 𝑦 𝑧+5
5. Show that the lines = = 𝑎𝑛𝑑 = = are perpendicular.
2 −3 4 −1 2 2
6. Find the image of the point (1, 0, 1) in the plane x + 2y + 3z = 6.
7. Find the angle between the line of intersection of the planes 3x + 2y + z = 5 and x
+ y – 2z = 3 and the line of intersection of the planes 2x = y + z and 7x + 10y =
8z.
8. Find the distance of the point (3, – 4, 5) from the plane 2x + 5y – 6z = 16,
𝑥 𝑦 𝑧
measured parallel to the line 2 = 1 = −2.

Cylinder

1. Find the equation of the right circular cylinder whose axis is x = 2y = –z and radius 4.

Sphere

1. Find the equation of the sphere which passes through the points (1, –3, 4), (1, –5, 2) and
(1, –3, 0) and whose centre is on the plane x + y + z = 0.
2. If the plane 2𝑎𝑥 − 3𝑎𝑦 + 4𝑎𝑧 + 6 = 0 passes through the midpoint of the
line joining the centres of the spheres 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 𝑧 2 + 6𝑥 − 8𝑦 − 2𝑧 = 13
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 𝑧 2 − 10𝑥 + 4𝑦 − 2𝑧 = 8, then find the value of 𝑎.
3. Find the equation of the sphere, which passes through four points (0, 0, 0), (0, 2,
0), (1, 0, 0) and (0, 0, 4) .

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