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any rounding is purely for display clarity.</strong></p>\n<p>The dot product of two vectors $\\boldsymbol{a}=\\pmatrix{a_1,a_2,a_3}$ and $\\boldsymbol{b}=\\pmatrix{b_1,b_2,b_3}$ is given by</p>\n<p>\\[\\boldsymbol{a\\cdot b}=a_1b_1+a_2b_2+a_3b_3\\] </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>$\\lvert\\boldsymbol{a}\\rvert=\\sqrt{a_1^2+a_2^2+a_3^2}$ ,$\\lvert\\boldsymbol{b}\\rvert=\\sqrt{b_1^2+b_2^2+b_3^2}$ are the lengths of the vectors $\\boldsymbol{a}$ and $\\boldsymbol{b}$.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>and so</p>\n<p>\\[\\cos(\\theta)=\\frac{\\boldsymbol{a\\cdot b}}{\\lvert\\boldsymbol{a}\\rvert \\lvert\\boldsymbol{b}\\rvert}=\\frac{a_1b_1+a_2b_2+a_3b_3}{\\lvert\\boldsymbol{a}\\rvert \\lvert\\boldsymbol{b}\\rvert}.\\]</p>\n<p>In part a) therefore, we have</p>\n<p>\\[\\cos(\\theta)=\\frac{\\var{dot(a,b)}}{\\var{precround(lena,2)}\\times\\var{precround(lenb,2)}}=\\frac{\\var{dot(a,b)}}{\\var{precround(lena*lenb,2)}}=\\var{ans1} \\; \\text{to 2d.p.,}\\]</p>\n<p>Which gives an angle $\\theta =\\var{ansrad}$ radians to 1 d.p.</p>", "metadata": {"description": "<p>Find the dot product and the angle between two vectors</p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "preamble": {"css": "", "js": ""}, "rulesets": {"std": ["all", "!collectNumbers", "!noLeadingMinus"]}, "tags": [], "statement": "<p>Find the angle&nbsp; 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