Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2010

  • question_answer
    Let\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}=2\widehat{\mathbf{i}}+\widehat{\mathbf{j}}-2\widehat{\mathbf{k}}\]and\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{b}}=\mathbf{\hat{i}}+\widehat{\mathbf{j}}\], if\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}\]is a vector such that\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\cdot \overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}=|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}|,\,\,|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}-\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}|=2\sqrt{2}\]and the angle between\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\times \overrightarrow{\mathbf{b}}\]and\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}\]is\[{{30}^{o}}\], then\[|(\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\times \overrightarrow{\mathbf{b}})\times \overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}|\]is equal to

    A) \[\frac{2}{3}\]                                   

    B) \[\frac{3}{2}\]

    C) \[2\]                     

    D)        \[3\]

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    We have,\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\cdot \overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}=|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}|\]and\[|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}-\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}|=2\sqrt{2}\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\cdot \overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}=|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}|\]and\[|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}}{{|}^{2}}+|\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}{{|}^{2}}-2(\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\cdot \overrightarrow{\mathbf{c}})=8\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[|\mathbf{\vec{c}}{{|}^{2}}+\,\,9-2|\mathbf{\vec{c}}|\,\,=8\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[{{(|\mathbf{\vec{c}}|-1)}^{2}}=0\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[|\mathbf{\vec{c}}|\,\,=1\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[|(\overrightarrow{\mathbf{a}}\times \overrightarrow{\mathbf{b}})\times \mathbf{\vec{c}}|=|\mathbf{\vec{a}}\times \mathbf{\vec{b}}||\mathbf{\vec{c}}|sin{{30}^{o}}\]                 \[=\frac{1}{2}|\mathbf{\vec{a}}\times \mathbf{\vec{b}}|\,\,=\frac{3}{2}\]                 \[[\because \,\,\mathbf{\vec{a}}\times \mathbf{\vec{b}}=2\widehat{\mathbf{i}}-2\mathbf{\hat{j}}+\mathbf{\hat{k}}]\]


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