What is the angle between the straight line and the plane ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A.
- Step 1: The direction vector of the line is and the normal to the plane is .
- Step 2: The angle between a line and a plane satisfies .
- Step 3: Compute: . Magnitudes: , and . Thus .
Answer
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Why not the others: is the angle between the line and the normal to the plane (); subtracts incorrectly; confuses cosine and sine.
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