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Find the value of m for which the vectors -2mi + 2j - 2k and 3i + 4mj + 3k perpendicular to each other.
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11 stepsIdentify the two vectors.
Let and .
Apply the condition for perpendicular vectors.
Two vectors are perpendicular if their dot product is zero ().
Simplify the equation.
Solve for .
The value of is .
Find the resultant vector .
The resultant vector is the sum of and .
Calculate the magnitude of the resultant vector .
Calculate the unit vector parallel to .
The unit vector is .
The unit vector parallel to the resultant is .
Identify the two vectors.
Let and .
Calculate the cross product .
Calculate the magnitude of .
Calculate the unit vector perpendicular to and .
The unit vector is .
The unit vector perpendicular to the given vectors is .
i. Magnitude of a vector
The magnitude of a vector is its length or size, representing the scalar value of the vector quantity. For a vector , its magnitude is given by .ii. Directional Cosines
Directional cosines are the cosines of the angles that a vector makes with the positive x, y, and z axes. For a vector , the directional cosines are , , and .iii. Parallelism of two vectors
Two vectors are parallel if they point in the same or opposite direction. Mathematically, two non-zero vectors and are parallel if one is a scalar multiple of the other, i.e., for some scalar .
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