10-1 to 10-5 Review: Do all work on another sheet of paper.

Given: a  2i  5 j and b  7i  9 j (#2-9)

Find:
2. a  b 3. a  b 4. b  a

5. a  b 6. a  b 7. a  b

8. a unit vector in the direction of b 9. a vector of length 8 in the direction of b

10. Find vector CD for C( 5,1) and D(2,6) . 11. Find vector DC for C( 5,1) and D(2,6) .

Given: points P(4,5, 12) and Q(6, 9,4)

12. Find the displacement vector , QP 13. Find the distance between P and Q.

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14. Find the position vector for a point 5 of the way from P to Q.

Given: a  2i  7 j  3k and b  i  6 j  5k (#15-21)

15. Draw a on the right. 

Show the “box” that makes it look three-dimensional.

16. Find a . 17. Find b .

18. Find a  b 19. Find a  b .

20. If the tail of b is placed at the head of a , how 21. If a and b are placed tail-to-tail, write the
far is it from the tail of a to the head of b ? vector that goes from the head of a to the
head of b .
Given: a  4i  6 j  9k and b  3i  2 j  3k

22. Find the dot product, a  b .

23. Find the degree measure of the angle between a and b when they are placed tail-to-tail.

24. Find p, the scalar projection of b on a .

25. Explain, in terms of projection, why the answer to #4 is negative.

26. Find a unit vector, u , in the direction of a .

27. Find the vector projection of b on a .

28. Give the components of the position vector that is 0.4 of the way from the head of b to
the head
of a when a and b are placed tail-to-tail.

29. Find the particular equation of the plane perpendicular to n  3i  5 j  4k containing

(6, -7, -2).

30. Find the particular equation of the plane parallel to the plane 3x  7 y  2 z  11 containing
the point (8, 11, -3)

31. Find an equation for the plane perpendicular to the segment connecting points P1 (5, 1,6)
and P2 (3, 4,7) and passing through the midpoint of P1 P2 .