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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 2 14 a i Solution by
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Use outward normal vectors to the two faces. The cross productspoint away from the opposite vertices, since and . Their Euclidean norms are and , and their dot product is . The interior dihedral angle of a convex polyhedron is supplementary to the outward-normal angle, soThis also equals the cosine of the acute angle between the unoriented face planes. The outward-normal angle itself has cosine ; keeping that distinction avoids a sign ambiguity.
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