Question

The component form of vector vec w is vec w =(-25,10); Find- 1 5 vec w

Answer 1

Let’s take a point each on the x, y, and z-axis as follows:

A (1, 0, 0) on x-axis

B (0, 1, 0) on y-axis and

C (0, 0, 1) on z-axis

unit vector

So, we have

|OA→| = 1 , |OB→| = 1, and |OC→| = 1

These vectors OA→, OB→, and OC→, each having magnitude 1 are Unit Vectors along the axes OX, OY, and OZ respectively. They are denoted by i⃗ , j⃗ , and k⃗ as shown in Fig. 1 above.

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