document.write( "Question 1206235: Vector A lies in the y-z plane 63° from the positive y-axis and has a magnitude 3.2. Vector B lies in the x-z plane 48° from the x-axis and has a magnitude 1.4.
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Vector A lies in the y-z plane 63° from the positive y-axis and has a magnitude 3.2.
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document.write( "It's in the y-z plane, means its x-component is 0.\r\n" );
document.write( "Its y-component is 3.2cos(63o) \r\n" );
document.write( "Its z-component is 3.2sin(63o) \r\n" );
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document.write( "Its components are < 0, 3.2cos(63o), 3.2sin(63o) >\r\n" );
document.write( "or in i,j,k form\r\n" );
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document.write( "0i + 3.2cos(63o)j + 3.2sin(63ok \r\n" );
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document.write( "or just 3.2cos(63o)j + 3.2sin(63ok\r\n" );
document.write( "as in this form it is unnecessary to write a 0 component.

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document.write( "It's in the x-z plane, means its y-component is 0.\r\n" );
document.write( "Its x-component is 1.4cos(48o) = 0.9367828489\r\n" );
document.write( "Its z-component is 1.4sin(48o) = 1.040402756\r\n" );
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document.write( "Its components are < 0, 1.4cos(48o), 1.4sin(48o) >\r\n" );
document.write( "1.4cos(48o)i + 0j + 1.4sin(48o)k \r\n" );
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document.write( "or just 1.4cos(48o)i + 1.4sin(48o)k\r\n" );
document.write( "as in this form it is unnecessary to write a 0 component.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To find \"A%2AB\", the dot product, which is the scalar product, is\r\n" );
document.write( "a plain old number, not a vector!\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"A%2AB\"\"%22%22=%22%22\"\"%22%22%2A%22%22\"\"%22%22=%22%22\"\r\n" );
document.write( "\"%22%22=%22%22\"\r\n" );
document.write( "\"%283.2sin%2863%5Eo%29%5E%22%22%29%281.4cos%2848%5Eo%29%5E%22%22%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "To find A x B. Work out this determinant, which will come out \r\n" );
document.write( "in i,j,k form. This is the cross-product, or the vector-product. Unlike\r\n" );
document.write( "the dot product, which is plain old number, the vector-product is a vector.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"AxB\"\"%22%22=%22%22\"\r\n" );
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