Question one:

(a) The three vertices of a triangle are located at A(6, -1, 2), B(-2, 3, -4) and C(-3, 1, 5). Find:
i. and
ii. and
iii. .
iv. The interior angle
v.
vi. The area of the triangle
vii. + and
(b) A person pushes a wheelbarrow with a steady force and it makes a
displacement . Find The work done by the force on the wheelbarrow
(c) A mountain is sliding under three forces, , and

. Its initial position vector is and later is

i. Find the resultant Force on the mountain and its magnitude

ii. Find the displacement of the mountain from to and its magnitude
iii. Find the work done by the resultant force to slide it from to
(d) A GPS receiver indicates that your home is 20 km and 40 north of west, but the only path
through the woods leads directly north. If you follow the path 10 km before it opens into a
field. how far would you have to walk to reach your home?

(e) A 25-cm long wrench is used to remove the lug nuts on a car wheel, as shown in the
illustration below. If you pull up on the end of the wrench with a force of 2.0 × 10 2 N at an
angle of 30 , what is the torque on the wrench?
Question two:

(a) Vector is 8 units long and points along the negative x axis. Vector is 4 units long and
points at +45o to the positive x axis. (i) What are the x and y components of each vector?
(ii)Determine the resultant vector and its direction.
(b) Three vectors are shown in the figure below. Their magnitudes are given in arbitrary
units. Determine the sum of the three vectors graphically. Give the resultant in terms of
(i) components, (ii) magnitude and angle with x axis.

(c) Show that the sum of the vectors and is

perpendicular to the vector .
(d) Given two vectors and
Find:
i.
ii. The angle between
iii.
iv. The area of the parallelogram formed by and
v. Prove that is perpendicular to
(e) Two vectors are given by and .
Prove that and are parallel
Question Three
(a) A car travels 6 km due east and then 4 km in a direction 60◦ north of east.
Find the magnitude and direction of the car’s displacement vector by using:
(i) The graphical method, and (ii) The analytical method.

(b) Three vectors are oriented as shown in Fig. below, where A = 10, B = 20, and C = 15 units.
Find:
(i) The x and y components of the resultant vector
(ii) The magnitude and direction of the resultant vector.

(c) The electromagnetic Poynting vector is defined by , where and are the
electric and magnetic fields. Calculate for and .
You can disregard units for this calculation.