Homework#1

1. Calculate the length of each vector and find the angle between them: a = (12, 3, 4)
b = (16, 48, 12).
2. Find the area of a triangle whose edges are the two vectors in #1 above. Ignore units.
2 5 1 3 4 2
3. Given A =[4 8 2] and B =[1 7 5]Demonstrate that A B B A
6 2 4 3 2 4
but (A B) = B A
T T T

4. Calculate the double dot product of the two matrices A : B .

5. Calculate the inverse of A in #3 and confirm that A A-1 = A-1 A = I .