(a)
\Show that is perpendicular to
.
Any vector function of constant magnitude is perpendicular to its derivative function for all .
Thus, in perpendicular we know that is perpendicular to
.But
,
and so is a scalar multiple of
.Thus,
must be perpendicular to
.
(b)
\Show that is perpendicular to
.
.
.
Therefore, is perpendicular to
.
(c)
\Since and
are not parallel at any time
, they deermine a plane at each value of
.Both
and
are orthogonal to that plane, so they must be parallel.Parallel vectors are scalar multiples of each other, so far each
there exists some value
that satisfies the equation.
(d)
\Since , and since
and
always define the plane containing the curve,
must always have the same direction. Its also always a unit vector, so its magnitude and direction are fixed.This means that the vector is constant for all
, so that
.But then
.
Since so it must be
for all
.
(a) is perpendicular to
.
(b) is perpendicular to
.
(c) Since and
are not parallel at any time
, they deermine a plane at each value of
.Both
and
are orthogonal to that plane, so they must be parallel.Parallel vectors are scalar multiples of each other, so far each
there exists some value
that satisfies the equation.
(d) .