Vector Algebra 20

101. The projection of the vector along the vector j is (c) (d) 3
[Kerala (Engg.) 2002] 111. If and is angle between
(a) 1 (b) 0 and , then the value of is equal to
(c) 2 (d) –1
[J & K 2005]
102. If the position vectors of A and B be and (a) 4/3 (b) 5/3
then the work done by the force (c) 1/3 (d) 1
in displacing a particle from A to B is 112. The projection of the vector on the vector
[MP PET 1987] is..... [Karnataka CET 2005]
(a) 15 unit (b) 17 unit
(c) – 15 unit (d) None of these (a) (b)
103. If the force moves from to
then work done will be represented by (c) (d)
[BIT Ranchi 1992]
(a) 3 (b) 4 113. If and , then the value of
(c) 5 (d) 6 is [Kerala (Engg.) 2005]
104. The work done by the force in displacing (a) – 21 (b) –21/2
a particle from the point (3, 4, 5) to the point (c) 21 (d) 21/2
(1, 2, 3) is [MP PET 1994; Kurukshetra CEE 2002] (e) 59/2
(a) 2 unit (b) 3 unit 114. A unit vector in the plane of and are
(c) 4 unit (d) 5 unit perpendicular to is [Kerala (Engg.) 2005]
105. Force and are acting on a particle
and displace it from the point to the point (a) (b)
then work done by the force is [MP PET 1995]
(a) 30 unit (b) 36 unit (c) (d)
(c) 24 unit (d) 18 unit
106. A particle acted on by two forces and (e)
is displaced from the point to 115. If and are perpendicular to and
The total work done by the forces is equal to respectively and if and
(a) 63 unit (b) 39 unit then
(c) 33 unit (d) 31 unit [Kerala (Engg.) 2005]
107. The work done in moving an object along the vector (a) (b) 50
if the applied force is , is
(c) (d) 10
[MP PET 1997, 2001]
(a) 7 (b) 8 (e) 20
(c) 9 (d) 10
108. A force of magnitude 5 units acting along the vector Vector or Cross product of two vectors and
displaces the point of application from its applications
to , then the work done is
[Kerala (Engg.) 2002] 1. If a, b, c are any vectors, then the true statement is
(a) 50/7 (b) 50/3 [RPET 1988]
(c) 25/3 (d) 25/4 (a) (b)
109. A particle acted on by constant forces and (c) (d)
is displaced from the point to the
point . The total work done by the force is
2. If a and b are unit vectors such that is also a unit vector,
[AIEEE 2003, 04]
then the angle between a and b is
(a) 20 unit (b) 30 unit
(c) 40 unit (d) 50 unit (a) 0 (b)
110. If the scalar projection of the vectors on the vector

is then value of x is equal to [J & K 2005] (c) (d)

3. The points will be collinear if

(a) (b) 6
 21 Vector Algebra
(a) (b) 13. If and then the
vector b satisfying and is [MP PET
(c) (d) None of these 1989]
(a) (1, 0, 0) (b) (0, 0, 1)
4. [MP PET 1987] (c) (0, –1, 0) (d) None of these
(a) (b) 14. If where a, b and c are coplanar vectors,
then for some scalar k [Roorkee 1985; RPET 1997]
(c) (d) None of these
(a) (b)
5. If then which relation is correct (c) (d) None of these
[RPET 1985; Roorkee 1981; AIEEE 2002]
15. If , then true statement is [MP PET 1991]
(a) (b)
(a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these
6. If  be the angle between the vectors a and b and
then (c) (d)
[RPET 1990; MP PET 1990; UPSEAT 2003]
16. Let a and b be two non-collinear unit vectors. If
(a) (b)
and then | v | is [IIT 1999]
(a) | u | (b) | u |+| u . a |
(c) (d) 0
(c) | u |+| u . b | (d) | u |+ u . (a+b)
7. [MP PET 1988] 17. If and then [RPET 1999]

(a) (b) (a) (b)

(c) (d) (c) (d) None of these
8. If a and b are two vectors such that a . b = 0 and 18. A unit vector perpendicular to the plane determined by the
then points (1, – 1, 2), (2, 0, – 1) and (0, 2, 1) is
[IIT Screening 1989; MNR 1988; UPSEAT 2000, 01] [IIT 1983; MNR 1984]
(a) a is parallel to b
(b) a is perpendicular to b (a) (b)
(c) Either a or b is a null vector
(d) None of these
9. The components of a vector a along and perpendicular to the (c) (d)
non-zero vector b are respectively [IIT 1988]
19. If and
(a) (b) then

(c) (d) (a) (b)

10. if
(c) (d)
[MP PET 1994; BIT Ranchi 1990; IIT 1982; AMU 2002]
(a) (b)
20. A unit vector which is perpendicular to and
(c) (d)
is [MP PET 1992]

11. Which of the following is not a property of vectors (a) (b)

[MP PET 1987]
(a)
(b) (c) (d)
(c)
21. If and
(d) are points on a plane. A unit normal vector to the plane ABC is
12. The number of vectors of unit length perpendicular to vectors [BIT Ranchi 1988]
and is
[BIT Ranchi 1991; IIT 1987; Kurukshetra CEE 1998; (a) (b)
DCE 2000; MP PET 2002]
(a) Three (b) One
(c) Two (d) Infinite (c) (d)
 Vector Algebra 22
22. The unit vector perpendicular to the vectors and
(c) (d)
is [IIT 1989; RPET 1996]
32. If and then the value
(a) (b)
of is [MNR 1978; RPET 2001]
(a) (b)
(c) (d) (c) (d)
33. The scalars l and m such that where a, b and c
23. For any two vectors a and b, is equal to
are given vectors, are equal to
[Roorkee 1975, 79, 81, 85]
(a) (b) (a)

(c) (d) None of these

(b)
24. The unit vector perpendicular to and
is [Roorkee 1979; RPET 1989, 91]
(c)
(a) (b)
(d) None of these
34.
(c) (d)
[EAMCET 1988; MP PET 1994, 2004; RPET 2000;
Pb. CET 2001; Orissa JEE 2003; AIEEE 2005]
25. The sine of the angle between the two vectors
(a) (b)
and will be [Roorkee 1978]
(c) (d)
(a) (b) 35. A unit vector perpendicular to the plane determined by the
points and
(c) (d) None of these is [IIT 1994]

26. For any two vectors a and b, if then (a) (b)

[Roorkee 1984]
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(c) Not parallel (d) None of these
27. If a and b are two vectors, then equals 36. A unit vector perpendicular to the vector and
[Roorkee 1975, 79, 81, 85] is [MNR 1995]

(a) (b) (a) (b)

(c) (d) None of these (c) (d)

28. For any vectors a, b, c 37. Given and
A unit vector perpendicular to both
[Roorkee 1981; Kerala (Engg.) 2002]
and is
(a) 0 (b)
[Karnataka CET 1993]
(c) (d) (a) i (b) j
29. If and then [RPET
1990] (c) k (d)
(a) (b)
38. The vectors and are such that
(c) (d) None of these
a, c, b form a right handed system, then c is [DCE 1999]
30. If and then a . b is equal to (a) (b) 0
[AI CBSE 1984; RPET 1991]
(c) (d)
(a) 0 (b) 2
(c) 4 (d) 6 39. If A, B, C, D are any four points in space, then
31. If and then the angle between a is equal to
and b is (a) (b)
(c) (d)
(a) (b)
(where  denotes the area of )
 23 Vector Algebra
40. If and then
(c) (d) None of these
[EAMCET 1994]
(a) 16 (b) 8
(c) 3 (d) 12 49. If is the angle between the vectors a and b, then
41.
a is equal to [Karnataka CET 1999]
not perpendicular to b, then (a) (b)
[EAMCET 1993] (c) (d)
(a) (b)
50. If the vectors and c are represented by the sides
(c) (d)
and respectively of the , then
42. If are unit orthonormal vectors and a is a vector, if [IIT Screening 2000]
then a . r is [EAMCET 1990]
(a) (b)
(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) – 1 (d) Arbitrary scalar
43. A unit vector perpendicular to each of the vector (c) (d)
and is equal to [MP PET 2003]
51. A vector perpendicular to both of the vectors and
(a) (b) is [RPET 2000]
(a) i + j (b) i – j
(c) (d) (c) , c is a scalar (d) None of these
52. A unit vector perpendicular to the plane of
44. If and and  is the
, is [MP PET 2000]
angle between and then the value of is
(a) (b)
(a) (b)

(c) (d)
(c) (d)
53. The unit vector perpendicular to both the vectors i – 2j + 3k and
45. A unit vector perpendicular to vector c and coplanar with i + 2j – k is [DCE 2001]
vectors a and b is [MP PET 1999]
(a) (b)
(a) (b)

(c) (d) None of these

(c) (d) None of these
54. The unit vector perpendicular to the vectors and
46. [MP PET 1989, 97, 2004] is [Karnataka CET 2001]

(a) (b) (a) (b)

(c) (d)
47. If the position vectors of three points and are
respectively i + j + k, 2i + 3j – 4k and 7i + 4j + 9k, then the (c) (d)
unit vector to the plane containing the triangle is
[DCE 1999] 55. If and , then is
[MP PET 2001]
(a) 31i – 18j – 9k (b) (a) 10i + 2j + 11k (b) 10i + 3j + 11k
(c) 10i – 3j + 11k (d) 10i – 3j – 10k
(c) (d) None of these 56. If and the angle between a and b is ,

48. If a, b, c are position vector of vertices of a triangle , then is equal to [AIEEE 2002]
then unit vector perpendicular to its plane is [RPET 1999]
(a) 48 (b) 16
(c) 8 (d) None of these
(a) (b)
57. If and , then is
[UPSEAT 2002]
 Vector Algebra 24

(a) (b)
where
(c) (d)
58. The unit vector perpendicular to both and is [MP PET 1989]
[Kerala (Engg.) 2002] (a) (b)
(a) i – j + k (b) i + j + k (c) (d)

(c) (d) 67. If and , then the area of

the triangle OAB is
59. A unit vector in the plane of the vectors (a) (b)
and orthogonal to is
[IIT Screening 2004] (c) (d)

(a) (b) 68. Let a, b, c be the position vectors of the vertices of a triangle
ABC. The vector area of triangle ABC is
[MP PET 1990; EAMCET 2003]
(c) (d)
(a) (b)
60. Let be three vectors such that and
and
If then  equals to
[Orissa JEE 2004]
(c) (d)
(a) 1 (b)
69. If and a, b are mutually perpendicular,
(c) 3 (d) – 2 then the area of the triangle whose vertices are
61. The area of a triangle whose vertices are is
and is (a) 5 (b) 1
[MNR 1983; IIT 1983] (c) 6 (d) 8
(a) 13 (b) 70. If and represents the adjacent sides
(c) 6 (d) of a parallelogram, then the area of this parallelogram is
[Roorkee 1978, 79; MP PET 1990; RPET 1988, 89, 91]
62. If vertices of a triangle are
(a) (b)
and then
the area of a triangle is [RPET 2000] (c) (d)
(a) (b) 71. If and are the vector sides of any
(c) (d) triangle, then its area is given by
[RPET 1987, 90]
63. The area of triangle whose vertices are (a) 41 (b) 47
and is
[Kerala (Engg.) 2002] (c) (d)
(a) 150 sq. unit (b) 145 sq. unit
72. If the vectors , represents the diagonals
(c) sq. unit (d) sq. unit of a parallelogram, then its area will be [Roorkee 1976]

64. The area of a parallelogram whose two adjacent sides are (a) (b)
represented by the vector and is [MNR 1981]

(a) (b) (c) (d)

73. The area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are the vectors
(c) (d) and where a and b are the unit vectors
forming an angle of is
65. The area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are
and is
(a) (b)
[MP PET 1988, 93; MNR 1985]
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
(c) 8 (d) 4 74. The area of a parallelogram whose adjacent sides are
66. The position vectors of the points A, B and C are and is
and respectively. The vector area of the [MP PET 1996, 2000]
 25 Vector Algebra
(a) (b) 83. Let the points A, B and P be (– 2, 2, 4), (2, 6, 3) and (1,2,1)
respectively. The magnitude of the moment of the force
(c) (d)
represented by and acting at A about P is
75. If the diagonals of a parallelogram are represented by the [MP PET 1987]
vectors and then its area in
(a) 15 (b)
square unit is [MP PET 1998]
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these

(c) (d) 84. The moment of a force represented by about

76. The area of a parallelogram whose adjacent sides are given by the point [BIT Ranchi 1992]
the vectors and (in square unit) (a) (b)
is [Karnataka CET 2001; Pb. CET 2004] (c) (d)
(a) (b) 85. A force of magnitude 6 acts along the vector
(c) (d) and passes through a point A (4, – 1, –7). The moment of the
force about the point O (1, – 3, 2) is
77. If and ,
then the area of the parallelogram having diagonals a + b and (a) (b)
b + c is [Kurukshetra CEE 2002]

(a) (b)

(c) (d)
(c) (d) 86. A force acts at a point A, whose position
vector is . The moment of F about the origin is
78. The area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are
[Karnataka CET 2000]
and is (a) (b)
(c) (d)
[UPSEAT 2002]
87. If and is a unit
(a) (b)
vector such that then the value of
(c) (d) is equal to
[DCE 2005]
(a) 1 (b) 3
79. The area of the triangle having vertices as (c) 5 (d) 2
, is [MP PET 2004] 88. A unit vector perpendicular to the plane containing the vectors
and is [Karnataka CET 2005]
(a) 26 (b) 11
(c) 36 (d) 0 (a) (b)
80. The area of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are
and is [UPSEAT 2004]
(c) (d)
(a) 2 (b) 4
(c) (d)
Scalar triple product and their applications
81. The moment of the force acting at a point P, about the point
C is [MP PET 1987] 1. If a, b, c are three non-coplanar vector, then
(a) = [IIT 1985, 86; UPSEAT 2003]
(b)
(a) 0 (b) 2
(c) A vector having the same direction as (c) – 2 (d) None of these
2. If a, b, c be any three non-coplanar vectors, then
(d) [RPET 1988; MP PET 1990, 02;
82. Three forces and Kerala (Engg.) 2002]
are acting on a particle at the point (0, 1, 2). The magnitude of (a) (b) 2
the moment of the forces about the point is (c) (d)
[MNR 1983] 3. If the vectors and form three
(a) (b) concurrent edges of a parallelopiped, then the volume of the
parallelopiped is [IIT 1983; RPET 1995; DCE 2001;
(c) (d) None of these
Kurukshetra CEE 1998; MP PET 2001]
(a) 8 (b) 10
 Vector Algebra 26
(c) 4 (d) 14 (c) 2 (d) 6
4. If a, b, c are any three coplanar unit vectors, then 14. If are the unit vectors and mutually perpendicular,
(a) (b) then is equal to [RPET 1986]
(c) (d) (a) 0 (b) – 1
5. If a and b be parallel vectors, then [a c b] = (c) 1 (d) None of these
(a) 0 (b) 1 15. If three vectors
(c) 2 (d) None of these
and represents a cube, then its volume
6. If the vectors and be
will be
coplanar, then [Roorkee 1988]
[Roorkee 1986; RPET 1999, 02; Kurukshetra CEE 2002] (a) 616 (b) 308
(a) – 1 (b) – 2 (c) 154 (d) None of these
(c) – 3 (d) – 4
7. If a, b, c are the three non-coplanar vectors and p, q, r are 16. If and then
defined by the relations [RPET 1989, 2001]
(a) 6 (b) 10
then (a+b) .
(c) 12 (d) 24
p +(b+c) . q +(c+a) . r = 17. Three concurrent edges OA, OB, OC of a parallelopiped are
[IIT 1988; BIT Mesra 1996; AMU 2002] represented by three vectors and
(a) 0 (b) 1 the volume of the solid so formed in cubic unit
(c) 2 (d) 3 is [Kurukshetra CEE 1998]
8. If the points whose position, vectors are (a) 5 (b) 6
and lie on a (c) 7 (d) 8
plane, then [IIT 1986; Pb. CET 2003]
18. If and for some non-zero
vector x, then the ture statement is [IIT 1983; Karnataka CET
(a) (b) 2002]
(a) (b)
(c) (d) (c) (d) None of these
19. If the given vectors
9. If where a,
and
b, c are three non-coplanar vectors, then the value of are coplanar, where none of a, b
is given by
and c is zero, then
[MNR 1992; UPSEAT 2000]
(a) 3 (b) 2 (a)
(c) 1 (d) 0 (b)
10. The volume of the parallelopiped whose edges are represented
(c)
by and is 546. Then
[IIT Screening 1989; MNR 1987] (d)
(a) 3 (b) 2 20. If a,b,c are three coplanar vectors, then
(c) – 3 (d) – 2 [MP PET 1995]
11. Let a, b, c be distinct non-negative numbers. If the vectors (a) [a b c] (b) 2 [a b c]
and lie in a plane, then c is (c) 3 [a b c] (d) 0
[IIT 1993; AIEEE 2005]
21. is equal to
(a) The arithmetic mean of a and b
(b) The geometric mean of a and b (a) (b)
(c) The harmonic mean of a and b (c) 0 (d) None of these
(d) Equal to zero
22. If then
12. If a, b, c are any three vectors and their inverse are
[EAMCET 1994]
and then
(a) 12 (b) 2
will be
[Roorkee 1989]
(c) 0 (d) – 12
(a) Zero (b) One 23. If the vectors and
(c) Non-zero (d) [a b c] are coplanar, then [EAMCET 1994]
13. If and are
coplanar then the value of p will be [RPET 1985, 86, 88, 91] (a) (b)
(a) – 6 (b) –2
(c) 0 (d) 1
 27 Vector Algebra
24. Volume of the parallelopiped whose coterminous edges are 34. If vectors , , and form a
is [EAMCET
left handed system, then is [Roorkee 1999]
1993]
(a) 5 cubic unit (b) 6 cubic unit (a) 11i – 6j – k (b) – 11i + 6j + k
(c) 7 cubic unit (d) 8 cubic unit (c) 11i – 6j + k (d) – 11i + 6j – k
35. What will be the volume of that parallelopiped whose sides are a =
25. If then
i – j + k, b = i – 3j + 4k and c = 2i – 5j + 3k
[Karnataka CET 1994]
[UPSEAT 1999]
(a) 3a (b) (a) 5 unit (b) 6 unit
(c) 0 (d) None of these (c) 7 unit (d) 8 unit
26. 36. Given vectors a, b, c such that the
[Karnataka CET 1994]
value of is
(a) 1 (b) 3
[AMU 1999]
(c) – 3 (d) 0
(a) 3 (b) 1
27. If and then the unit
(c) (d)
vector perpendicular to a and b is
[MP PET 1996] 37. If and c are unit coplanar vectors then the scalar triple
product is equal to
(a) (b)
[IIT Screening 2000; Kerala (Engg.) 2005]
(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) (d) (c) (d)

28. If , 38. If the vectors , and

are coplanar, then the value of x is [Karnataka CET 2000]
are the three coterminous edges of a
parallelopiped, then its volume is (a) – 2 (b) 2
[MP PET 1996] (c) 1 (d) 3
(a) 108 (b) 210 39. The value of [a – b b – c c – a], where , and
(c) 272 (d) 308 is [RPET 2000]
29. [MP PET 1996] (a) 0 (b) 1
(a) b . b (b) (c) 2 (d) 4

(c) 0 (d) 40. are

coplanar, then the value of is [MP PET 2000]
30. If three conterminous edges of a parallelopiped are represented
by and , then its volume is (a) 5/2 (b) 3/5
[MP PET 1999; Pb. CET 2003] (c) 7/3 (d) None of these
(a) [a b c] (b) 2 [a b c] 41. Let , . If
(c) (d) 0 , and , then to make three vectors coplanar
31. For three vectors u, v, w which of the following expressions is [AMU 2000]
not equal to any of the remaining three [IIT 1998]
(a)
(a) (b)
(b)
(c) (d)
32. Which of the following expressions are meaningful (c)
[IIT 1998; RPET 2001] (d) No value of can be found
(a) (b)
42. Let ,
(c) (d) . Then depends on
33. If are non-coplanar vectors and [IIT Screening 2001; AIEEE 2005]
then is equal to [Roorkee 1999] (a) Only x (b) Only y
(c) Neither x nor y (d) Both x and y
(a) (b)
43. If and
, then is
(c) (d) [Karnataka CET 2001]
(a) 122 (b) – 144
 Vector Algebra 28
(c) 120 (d) – 120 56. If then the value of [a b c] is
44. equal to
[EAMCET 2002] [Pb. CET 2000]
(a) 1 (b) – 1
(a) – [a b c] (b) [a b c]
(c) (d) 0
(c) 0 (d) 2[a b c]
45. a.(b × c) is equal to [RPET 2001] 57. If and are
(a) b.(a × c) (b) c.(b × a) coplanar vectors, the value of is
[UPSEAT 2004]
(c) b.(c × a) (d) None of these
46. If are vectors such that , then (a) (b)
= [AIEEE 2002]
(a) 16 (b) 64
(c) (d) 2
(c) 4 (d) 8
47. The volume of the parallelopiped whose conterminous edges
are and is
[Kerala (Engg.) 2002]
(a) 4 (b) 3
(c) 2 (d) 8
48.
[UPSEAT 2002]
(a) 1 (b) 3
(c) – 3 (d) – 1
49. If u, v and w are three non-coplanar vectors, then
equals
[AIEEE 2003; DCE 2005]
(a) 0 (b)
(c) (d)
50. is equal to
[IIT 1981; UPSEAT 2003; RPET 1988, 2002; MP PET 2004]
(a) [a b c] (b) 2[a b c]
(c) 3[a b c] (d) 0
51. If the vectors and
are coplanar, then m is
[Karnataka CET 2003]
(a) 38 (b) 0
(c) 10 (d) – 10
52. Vector coplanar with vectors i + j and j + k and parallel to the
vector 2i – 2j – 4k, is [Roorkee 2000]
(a) i – k (b) i – j – 2k
(c) i + j – k (d) 3i + 3j – 6k
53. The value of  for which the four points
, are coplanar
[MP PET 2004]
(a) 8 (b) 0
(c) – 2 (d) 6
54. If are non-coplanar vectors and  is a real number,
then the vectors and
are non-coplanar for [AIEEE 2004]
(a) No value of  (b) All except one value of 
(c) All except two values of  (d) All values of 
55. Let and be three vectors. Then scalar triple product
is equal to [UPSEAT 2004]

(a) (b)
(c) (d)