Quiz (open-book scavenge hunt): Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Completion requirements
- What are three uses of vectors in physics?
- What is the range of values that the dot product of two normalized vectors can produce?
- What is the range of possible values for the magnitude of the cross product of two normalized vectors?
- What is the geometric significance of the dot product of two normalized vectors?
- What is the geometric significance of the cross product of two vectors?
- When is the dot product of two vectors equal to zero?
- When is the magnitude of the cross product of two vectors equal to zero?
- How can the dot product be used to compute the magnitude of a vector?
- How do dot products figure in the computation of the product of two matrices?
- The matrices that we use to model rotations are orthogonal. What is an orthogonal matrix?
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