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    This document provides a tutorial on vectors in R^2 and R^3. It includes problems involving vector operations like addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication; finding vector lengths, distances between points, unit vectors; vector properties involving orthogonality and parallelism; and applications involving reflections, shears, areas of shapes and volumes of parallelepipeds. There are 26 problems in total covering basic vector concepts and their geometric applications in 2D and 3D spaces.

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    BITI 1213 Linear Algebra and Mathematics Discrete

    Faculty of Information and Communications & Technology






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    TUTORIAL 4: VECTORS IN R
    n


    Vectors in R
    2

    1. Determine the head of the vector [
    2
    5
    ] whose tail is at (3, 2). Make a sketch.

    2. Find u + v , u v, 2u and 3u 2v for:
    a. u = (2,3), v = (-2,5)
    b. u = (0,3), v = (3,2)
    c. u = (2,6), v = (3,2)

    3. Find the length of the following vectors.
    a. (1, 2) b. ( -3, 4) c. (0, 2) d. (-4, 3)

    4. Find the distance between the following pairs of points.
    a. (2, 3) and (3, 4) b. (0, 3) and (2, 0)

    5. Find a unit vector in the direction of x.
    a. x = (2, 4) b. x = (-2, -3)

    6. Find the area of the triangle with vertices (3, 3), (-1, -1) and (4, 1).

    7. Find the cosine of the angle between each pairs of vectors u and v.
    a. u = (1, 2) and v = (2,-3)
    b. u = (2, 1) and v = (-2, -1)

    8. Find the constant of a if the vectors (a, 2) and (a, -2) are orthogonal.

    9. Find the constant of b such that the vectors (b, 4) and (2, 5) are parallel.

    10. Write each of the following vectors in R
    2
    in terms of i and j.
    a. (1, 3) b. (-2, 0)

    Vectors in R
    3


    11. Determine the head of the vector (3, 4, -1) whose tail is at (1, -2, 3).

    12. Find u + v , u v, 2u and 3u 2v for:
    a. u = (1, 2, -3) and v = (0, 1 ,-2)

    b. u = [
    2
    0
    4
    ] and v = [
    3
    2
    1
    ]

    13. Find the length of the following vectors.
    a. (2, 3, 4) b. (1, 2, -3, -4)

    14. Find the distance between the following pairs of points.
    a. (0, 2, 3) and (1, 2, -4) b. (3, 4, 0, 1) and (2, 2, 1, -1)
    BITI 1213 Linear Algebra and Mathematics Discrete
    Faculty of Information and Communications & Technology




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    15. Find all constants a such that u . v = 0 where u = (a, 2, 1, a) and v = (a, -1, -2, -3).

    16. Find a unit vector in the direction of x.
    a. x = (2, -1, 3) b. x = (0, -1, 2, -1)

    17. Find the cosine of the angle between each pair of vectors u and v.
    a. u = (2, 3, 1) and v = (3, -2, 0) b. u = (0, 4, 2, 3) and v = (0, -1, 2, 0)

    18. Check either u = (1, 0, 0, 2) and v = (0, -3, 1, 0) is orthogonal or not?

    19. Identify either u = (4, 2, 6, -8) and v = (-2, -1, -3, 4) is parallel or not?

    20. Write each of the following vectors in R
    3
    in terms of i, j and k.
    a. (1, 2, -3) b. ( 0, 0, -2)

    21. Find the cross product of vectors u and v below:
    a. u = 2i + 3j + 4k, v = -i + 3j k
    b. u = (1, 0, 1) v = (2, 3, -1)


    Application in R
    2
    and R
    3


    Reflection
    22. The reflection with respect to the line y = -x of a vector u in R
    2
    is defined by the linear operator
    () = ([
    1
    2
    ]) = [
    2
    1
    ].
    a. Find L (e1) and L (e2).
    b. Determine the standard matrix representing L.
    c. Find the images vertices of the triangle with vertices (-1, 4), (3, 1) and (2, 6).

    Shear
    23. A shear in the y- direction is defined by the linear operator L (u) = L (
    1
    2
    ) = [
    1
    2 +1
    ] where k
    is a scalar.
    a. Determine the standard matrix representing L.
    b. R is a rectangle with vertices (1, 1), (1, 4), (3, 1) and (3, 4). Let k = 2 and determine the image
    of R. Sketch the R and the image of R.

    Area
    24. Find the area of the triangle with vertices P1 (1, -2, 3), P2 (-3, 1, 4) and P3 (0, 4, 3).

    25. Find the area of parallelogram with adjacent sides u = i + 3j 2k and v = 3i j k

    Volume of Parallelepiped
    26. Find the volume of the parallelepiped with a vertex at the origin and edges u = i - 2j + 4k , v = 3i
    + 4j + k and w = - i + j + k.

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