Practicing Success
Let $\vec a,\vec b,\vec c$ be three unit vectors such that $\vec a. \vec b = \vec a. \vec c = 0$. If the angle between $\vec b$ and $\vec c$ is $\frac{π}{3}$ then the volume of the parallelopiped whose three coterminous edges are $\vec a,\vec b,\vec c$ is |
$\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ cubic units $\frac{1}{2}$ cubic units 1 cubic unit none of these |
$\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ cubic units |
We have, $\vec a. \vec b = \vec a. \vec c = 0⇒\vec a⊥\vec b, \vec a⊥\vec c⇒\vec a||\vec b×\vec c$ Also, $|\vec b×\vec c|=|\vec b||\vec c|\sin \frac{π}{3}=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ $[∵|\vec b||\vec c|=1]$ $∴|[\vec a\,\, \vec b\,\,\vec c]|=|\vec a.(\vec b×\vec c)|=|\vec a||\vec b×\vec c|=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ |