Chapter 1: Vectors, Lines and Planes
Section 1.5: Applications of Vector Products
Example 1.5.15
If , show that and together imply that .
Solution
Equate the lengths of the cross products, so that = , where is the angle between A and B, and is the angle between A and C. This gives
=
The equality gives = , from which it follows that
Therefore = so , from which it follows that . Consequently, = , and since the angles these vectors make with the fixed vector A are the same, the vectors B and C must be the same.
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