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wasp88
Mar 13, 2011, 02:21 PM
for which value of s is the vector[1,2,s] orthogonal to [-1,1,1]? How you solve it

galactus
Mar 13, 2011, 03:02 PM
Take the dot product of

[1,2,s] and [-1,1,1]

Set it to 0 and solve for s. The dot product results in a very easy equation to solve for s.

wasp88
Mar 13, 2011, 06:08 PM
Thanks it really helped me