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OpenStudy (anonymous):

help with these problems!?!?!??!?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@Nnesha @nincompoop @JoannaBlackwelder

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i give a medal

Nnesha (nnesha):

but i need chocolates

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

When you take the cross product of k and i, you get another vector.

Nnesha (nnesha):

jk i don't even know that thingy on k and i sorry

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

and a vector dotted with another vector will give you a scalar quantity.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can you work the problem out or me im confused really

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

\[\hat i = \langle 1~,0~,0\rangle\]\[\hat j = \langle 0~,~1~,~0\rangle\]\[\hat k = \langle 0~,~ 0~,~ 1\rangle\]

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

These are what you call unit vectors because their magnitude is 1. Have you learned about these yet?

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

So I'll set it up for yuo, and you tell me what you get as your vector. |dw:1424158762530:dw|

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

Now take the cross product of these two vectors.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what would i come up with?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

k x i must be either j or -j, since clockwise, ijk is positive and anticlockwise is taken negative then k x i which is clockwise will give j, the dot product is much easier

OpenStudy (jhannybean):

If you know the meaning of the cross product first.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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