Assignment No 7 (Applications of Vectors)

1.Find the coordinate vector for the displacement vector AB and parametric vector forms for
the lines through the points A and B with co-ordinates
(a) A (1, 2), B (2, 7); (b) A (1, 2, -1), B (-1, -1, 5); (c) A (1, 2, 1), B (7, 2, 3);
d) A (1, 2, -1, 3), B (-1, 3, 1, 1);

2. Does the point (3, 5, 7) lie on the line x =(-1, 3, 6) + t(4, 2, 1)

3.Given the following position vectors A, B, C and D are the vectors AB and CD parallel?
(a) A = (1, 2, 3), B = (-2, 3, 4), C = (-3, -4, 7), D = (4, -6, -9).
(b) A = (3, 2, 5), B = (5, -3, -6), C = (-2, 3, 7), D = (0, -2, -4).
(c) A = (12, -4, 6), B = (2, 6, -4), C = (5, -2, 9), D = (0, 3, 4).

Do any of these sets of 4 points form a parallelogram?

4. Find parametric vector forms for the following lines in R2

(a) y = 3x + 4 (b) 3x + 2y = 6 (c) y = -7x

(d) y = 4 (e) x = -2
In each case indicate the direction of the line and a point through which the line passes.
5. Find a parametric vector form and a Cartesian form for each of the following lines
(a) through the points (-4, 1, 3) and (2, 2, 3);
(b) through (1, 2, -3) parallel to the vector (4, -5, 6);
(c) through (1, -1, 1) parallel to the line joining the points (2, 2, 1) and (7, 1, 3);
(d) through (1, 0, 0) parallel to the line joining the points (3, 2, -1) and (3, 5, 2).

6. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.

(a) The lines y = 3x - 4 and x = (2, 1) + λ (4, 12) are parallel.
(b) The lines x = (3, -1) + λ (6, 4) and 2x + 3y = 8 are parallel.
(c) The lines x = (4, -1, 2) + λ (10, 2, 8) and
x + 10 y−7 z+3
= = are parallel.
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x + 10 z+3
(d) The lines x = (3, -2, 7) + λ (10, 0, -4) and = , y = −5 are parallel.
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7. Let A = (2, 3, -1) and B = (4, -5, 7). Find the midpoint of A and B. Find the point Q on the line
through A and B such that B lies between A and Q and BQ is three times as long as AB.

8. The coordinate vectors, relative to the origin O, of the points A and B are respectively a and b.
State, in terms of a and b, the position vector of the point T which lies on AB such that
AT = 2TB .
9. Show that the points A(1, 2, 3), B(3, 8, 1), C(7, 20, -3) are collinear.

10. Show that the points A(-1, 2, 1), B(4, 6, 3), C(-1, 2, -1) are not collinear.

11. Prove that A(1, 2, 1), B(4, 7, 8), C(6, 4, 12) and D(3, -1, 5) are the vertices of a
parallelogram.Draw and label the parallelogram.

12. If A(-1, 3, 4), B(4, 6, 3), C(-1, 2, 1) and D are the vertices of a parallelogram, find all the
possible co-ordinates for the point D.

13. Suppose A and B are points with co-ordinate vectors a and b, respectively. Write down a
parametric vector form for
(a) the line segment AB. (b) the line from B through A.
(c) all points P which lie on the line through A and B such that A is between P and B.

(d) all points Q which lie on the line through A and B and are closer to B than A.
14. Give a geometric interpretation of the following sets. In each set, λ ∈ R .
(a) S = {x : x = (1, 3, 6) + λ (-3, 1, 7) for 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1}.
(b) S = {x : x = (1, 2, 4, 0, -7) + λ (-2, 5, 9, 3, 6) for − 1 ≤ λ ≤ 5 }.
(c) S = {x : x = λ (6, -2, 7, 2, -1, 5) + (1 - λ )(0, 4, 8, 3, -5, 4) for 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1.
(d) S = {x : x = (1, 4, -6, 2) + λ (3, 0, -1, 5) for λ ≥ 0 }
(e) S = {x : x = (3, 1, -4) + λ (6, -2, 7) for | λ |≥ 2 }.