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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2005 Paper 1 5 a Solution by
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Let , and . Cross products give plane normals and . Their dot product is and each has norm . Thus the acute angle between two planes isThis is also the interior dihedral angle here: perpendicular to the common edge , the interior wedge lies between the projected directions and . The two outward face normals instead make the supplementary angle.
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