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find a unit vector in the direction of the given vector. Verify that the result has a magnitude of 1.

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 find a unit vector in the direction of the given vector. Verify that the result has a magnitude of 1.

asked Jan 24, 2015 in TRIGONOMETRY by anonymous
reshown Jan 24, 2015 by goushi

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 Step 1:

 The vector is  image .

The unit vector in the direction of image is image.

The magnitude of the vector image :

image

Step 2:

The unit vector is image.

Let image be the unit vector of image.

image

The unit vector in the direction of image is .

Step 3:

Find the length of unit vector .

image

The unit vector has length 1.

Solution :

The  unit vector in the direction of image is .

answered Jan 24, 2015 by yamin_math Mentor

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