Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2013

  • question_answer
    If\[\mathbf{a}\times \mathbf{b}=\mathbf{c},\,\,\mathbf{b}\times \mathbf{c}=\mathbf{a}\]and\[\mathbf{a},\,\,\mathbf{b},\,\,\mathbf{c}\]be the moduli of the vectors\[\mathbf{a},\,\,\mathbf{b},\,\,\mathbf{c}\]respectively, then

    A) \[a=1,\,\,b=1\]                 

    B) \[c=1,\,\,a=1\]

    C) \[\mathbf{a}\cdot (\mathbf{b}\times \mathbf{c})=1\] 

    D)        \[b=1,\,\,c=a\]

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    Since,\[\mathbf{a}\times \mathbf{b}=\mathbf{c}\] \[\therefore \]  \[(\mathbf{b}\times \mathbf{c})\times \mathbf{b}=\mathbf{c}\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[(\mathbf{b}\cdot \mathbf{b})\mathbf{c}-(\mathbf{b}\cdot \mathbf{c})\mathbf{b}=\mathbf{c}\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[(\mathbf{b}\cdot \mathbf{b})=1\]      \[\mathbf{c}\cdot \mathbf{b}=0\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[{{b}^{2}}=1\]                  \[i.e.,\,\,b=1\] \[\therefore \]   \[\mathbf{b}\]is a unit vector \[\therefore |\mathbf{c}|\,\,=\,\,|\mathbf{a}|\]           \[\Rightarrow \]   \[c=a\]


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