Midterm Exam 1 Review – MATH 215 (Fall 2018)

General tips/notes:

• Go through text/notes and make sure you understand the main concepts.

• Work through the examples from text, lectures and quiz problems.

• Work out problems from this review sheet (these are mostly previous weeks’ worksheet problems).

• Time permitting, work out as many as the WeBWorK and practice problems from the text as possible.

Review Problems:

(1) Find the distance between points P1 (1, 1, 1) and P2 (2, 5, 0).
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(2) Find the equation of the sphere whose center is (1, 2, 3) and radius is 12.

(3) What points P (x, y, z) satisfy the equation

x2 + y 2 = 9, z = 2?

(4) Find a unit vector u in the direction of the vector from P (1, 1, 0) to Q(3, 0, 2).

(5) Copy the vectors in the figure and use them to draw the following vectors
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(i) a + b (ii) a − b (iii) a (iv) − 3b (v) a + 2b (vi) 2b − a
2

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(6) Let ~v = h2, −4, 5i, ~u = h−2, 4, − 5i. Find
(a) ~v · ~u
(b) |~v |, |~u|
(c) the cosine of the angle between ~v and ~u
(d) the scalar component of ~u in the direction of ~v
(e) the vector projection of ~u onto ~v .

(7) Determine whether the given vectors are orthogonal, parallel or neither.
(a) u = 3i − 2j + k and v = 2j + 4k.
(b) u = i − 2j − 2k and v = 6i + 3j + 2k.
(c) u = 2i + 6j − 4k and v = −3i − 9j + 6k.

(8) Find the work done by a force F = 5i (magnitude 5 N) in moving an object along the line from the
origin to the point (1, 1) (distance in meters).

(9) Find two unit vectors orthogonal to both h3, 2, 1i and h−1, 1, 0i.

(10) Find a vector perpendicular to the plane of P (1, −1, 0), Q(2, 1, −1) and R(−1, 1, 2).

(11) Find the volume of the parallelepiped with adjacent edges P Q, P R, and P S, where P (3, 0, 1), Q =
(−1, 2, 5), R(5, 1, −1), S(0, 4, 2).
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(12) Find the parametric equation of the line through (2, 3, 0) perpendicular to the vectors u = i + 2j + 3k
and v = 3i + 4j + 5k.

(13) Determine whether the lines L1 and L2 are parallel, skew, or intersecting.
(a) L1 : x = 5 − 12t, y = 3 + 9t, z = 1 − 3t
L2 : x = 3 + 8s, y = −6s, z = 7 + 2s
x y−1 z−2
(b) L1 : = =
1 −1 3
x−2 y−3 z
L2 : = =
2 −2 7
(14) Find the symmetric equation of the line through (2, 1, 0) and perpendicular to both i + j and j + k.

(15) Find the equation of the plane through the origin and the points (2, −4, 6) and (5, 1, 3).

(16) Find the equation of the plane through the point (6, 0, −2) and contains the line x = 4−2t, y = 3+5t,
z = 7 + 4t.

(17) Find parametric equations for the line that is tangent to the given curve at the parameter value
t = t0 .
r(t) = (sin t) i + (t2 − cos t) j + et k, t0 = 0.

(18) Find a vector function that represents the curve of intersection of the two surfaces:
(a) the hyperboloid z = x2 − y 2 and the cylinder x2 + y 2 = 1
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(b) the cone z = x2 + y 2 and the plane z = 1 + y.

(19) Let r(t) = (2 cos t) i + (3 sin t) j + 4t k denote the position of a particle in space at time t. Find the
particle’s velocity and acceleration vectors at t = π/2. Then find the particle’s speed and direction
of motion at the given value of t.

(20) Find the limit.

(a) lim ((cos t) i + (sin t) j + 2t k)
t→π/4
√
 2 
t −9 sin 2πt
(b) lim i+ t+9 j+ k
t→3 t−3 ln t
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(21) Find the arc length of the curve r(t) = h7 2t, e7t , e−7t i, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1.

(22) Compare the curvature of circles with radii a and 5a units.

(23) Find the unit tangent vector, T, the unit normal vector N, and the binormal vector B (as functions
of the parameter t) for the circular helix r(t) = cos t i + sin t j + t k.

Also look over/work out the true-false quiz in the textbook’s Chapter 13 and Chapter 14 review sections.