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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics IV resit 1 c Solution by
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The straight line has direction vector , so take the unit vector . A half-turn has and . The preceding rotation formula becomesThus the rotation matrix in the standard basis isIt fixes and negates every vector in its orthogonal complement, which also checks the half-turn geometrically.
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