Assignment I

1. a) Find a real number  such that the vectors A = (  ,-3, 1) and B = (  ,  , 2) are perpendicular.
b) Find two vectors each of norm 1 that are perpendicular to the vector A = (3, 2,-1).

2. a) Find the cosine of the angle between the vectors A = (4, 1, 6) and B= (-3, 0, 2).
b) Find the projection of vector U = (-7, 1, 3) onto vector V= (5, 0, 1).
c) Find the equations (both in parametric and standard form) of the line through the points P (3, 5, 1)
and Q (-3, 2, -3).

3. Does the point P lie on the line L ? If not, find its distance from L.
i) L: X = (0, 1, 0) +  (3, 0, 1); P (1, 5, 2)
ii) L: X = (3, 1, 1) +  (0, 1, 2); P (3,-1,-3)

4. Determine the equation of the plane

a) containing the point P (-5, 2, 3) and perpendicular to the vector v = (-2, 0, 1)
b) containing the three points(-2, 3, 4), (0, -3, 1), (4, 9, -5)
c) containing the point P (3, -2, 4) and the line L: (1, -1, 2) + t (-2, 1, -1), t
d) containing the line P = (1, -1, 2) + (2, -2, 3) and perpendicular to the plane
 : 3x – 2y + z – 6 = 0.

5. a) Find the distance of the point P (2,5,1) from the plane which contains the points
(4,2,5), (5,2,-1) and (4,-1,2).
b) Find the intersection of the plane  = 2x+3y-z-7=0 with the line L: X = (3,2,0) +  (1,0,1).

6. a) Find a vector perpendicular to both the vectors U= (-7, 3, 1) and V = (2, 0, 4).
b) Find the area of the triangle with vertices P (2, 0,-3), Q (1, 4, 5) and R (7, 2, 9).
c) Find the volume of the parallelepiped with edges on vectors (-3, 3, 2),
(1, 1, 4) and (1, 0, 2).

7. Let V= 3 and W = {(a, b, c)  3 a 0  show that W is not a subspace of V.

8. Which of the following sets are linearly independent in 3?

a) {(1,1), (-1,0), (2,-1)}
b) {(3,1,-4), (2,2,-3), (0,-4,1)}

9. Let Pn be the set of all polynomials of degree  n , n N with coefficients in . Show that
{x –1, x + 1, x2} is a set of linearly independent vectors in P2.
10. Let 𝐵 = {(1, 2, 1), (1, 0, −1), (0, 1, 0)}. Determine if B is basis of ℛ3 ?