Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/6/solution

Use direction and displacement . The point-to-line distance is the height of the parallelogram spanned by these vectors:
Equivalently the closest line parameter is , giving the foot . Its separation from the point is orthogonal to and has the same length.

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