Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2003 Paper 2 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
The displacement vectors are and . Their cross product is , with Euclidean norm three. Thus either sign ofis a unit normal vector to the second plane, whose equation is . A direction vector for the intersection is the cross product of the two normal vectors:It is orthogonal to each normal vector. Since both planes contain , the whole intersection line is , .
Perpendicular lines 2026-10-20
Two intersecting straight lines are perpendicular if their angle is . Their direction vectors have zero dot product.