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Engineering Electromagnetics (2151002)

Tutorial No. 1

Q.1 If A=10ax-4ay+6az and B=2ax+ay. Find

(a) The component of A along ay.

(b) The magnitude of 3A-B.

(c) A unit vector along A+2B.

Q.2 Points P & Q are located at (0, 2, 4) & (-3, 1, 5). Calculate

(a) The position vector P.

(b) The distance vector from P to Q.

(c) The distance between P & Q.

Q.3 Given P=2ax-az, Q=2ax-ay+2az, R=2ax-3ay+az, Determine

(a) (P+Q) × (P-Q)

(b) Sin θQR

(c) A unit vector perpendicular to both Q&R.

(d) The component of P along Q.

Q.4 If Á=α a^ x +2 a^ y +10 a^ z and B́=4 α a^ x +8 a^ y −2 α a^ z find out the value of α for which the two
vectors become perpendicular.

Q.5 Find out unit vector in perpendicular in the right-hand sense to the vectors A= -ix + i y + iz,

B=ix- iy + iz? Draw A, B and in. What is the angle between A and B?

Q.6 Given the vectors M = − 10ax + 4ay -8azand N = 8ax + 7ay− 2az, find:

a) A unit vector in the direction of -M+2N. b) The magnitude of 5ax + N -3M c)|M||2N|(M+ N)

Q.7 The vector from the origin to point A is given as (6, -2, -4) and the unit vector directed from the
origin toward point B is (2, -2, 1)/3. If point A and B are ten units apart, find the coordinates of point B.

Q.8 Given points are E (2, 5, 1), F (-1, 4, -2) and G (3, -2, 4).
Find: (i) A unit vector directed from E towards F.

(ii) The angle between REF and REG.

(iii) The scalar projection REF on REG.

Q.9 E and F are vector fields given by E = 2xax + ay + yzaz and F = xyax -y2ay+ xyz az .Determine:

(a) | E | a t (l, 2, 3)

(b) The component of E along F at (1, 2, 3)

(c) A vector perpendicular to both E and F at (0, 1, - 3) whose magnitude is unity.

Q.10 Given points M (-1, 2, 1), N(3, -3, 0) and P(-2, -3, -4). Find:

(a) RMN (b) RMN + RMP (c) |rM| (d) aMP (e) |2rP-3rN|