JEE Main Mathematics — Vectors & 3D Geometry previous year questions with solutions.
Let $\vec{b}=\hat{i}+\hat{j}+\lambda \hat{k},\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$. If $\vec{a}$ is a vector such that $\vec{a}\times \vec{b}=13\hat{i}-\hat{j}-4\hat{k}$ and $\vec{a}\cdot \vec{b}+21=0$, then $(\vec{b}-\vec{a})\cdot (\hat{k}-\hat{j})+(\vec{b}+\vec{a})\cdot (\hat{i}-\hat{k})$ is equal to
Let $\vec{a}={a}_{1}\hat{i}+{a}_{2}\hat{j}+{a}_{3}\hat{k},{a}_{i}>0,i=1,2,3$ be a vector which makes equal angles with the coordinate axes $OX,OY$ and $OZ$. Also, let the projection of $\vec{a}$ on the vector $3\hat{i}+4\hat{j}$ be $7$ . Let $\vec{b}$ be a vector obtained by rotating $\vec{a}$ with $90^{\circ}$. If $\vec{a},\vec{b}$ and $x$-axis are coplanar, then projection of a vector $\vec{b}$ on $3\hat{i}+4\hat{j}$ is equal to
Let $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ be two vectors such that ${|\vec{a}+\vec{b}|}^{2}={|\vec{a}|}^{2}+2{|\vec{b}|}^{2},\vec{a}\cdot \vec{b}=3$ and ${|\vec{a}\times \vec{b}|}^{2}=75$. Then ${|\vec{a}|}^{2}$ is equal to ______.
Let $S$ be the set of all $a\in R$ for which the angle between the vectors $\vec{u}=a({\mathrm{log}}_{e}b)\hat{i}-6\hat{j}+3\hat{k}$ and $\vec{v}=({\mathrm{log}}_{e}b)\hat{i}+2\hat{j}+2a({\mathrm{log}}_{e}b)\hat{k},(b>1)$ is acute. Then $S$ is equal to
Let the vectors $\vec{a}=(1+t)\hat{i}+(1-t)\hat{j}+\hat{k}$, $\vec{b}=(1-t)\hat{i}+(1+t)\hat{j}+2\hat{k}$ and $\vec{c}=t\hat{i}-t\hat{j}+\hat{k},t\in R$ be such that for $\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma \in R,\alpha \vec{a}+\beta \vec{b}+\gamma \vec{c}=\vec{0}$ $\Rightarrow \alpha =\beta =\gamma =0$. Then, the set of all values of $t$ is
Let a vector $\vec{a}$ has a magnitude $9$. Let a vector $\vec{b}$ be such that for every $(x,y)R\times R-{(0,0)}$, the vector $(x\vec{a}+y\vec{b})$ is perpendicular to the vector $(6y\vec{a}-18x\vec{b})$. Then the value of $|\vec{a}\times \vec{b}|$ is equal to
Let $\vec{a}=\hat{i}-2\hat{j}+3\hat{k},\vec{b}=\hat{i}+\hat{j}+\hat{k}$ and $\vec{c}$ be a vector such that $\vec{a}\times (\vec{b}+\vec{c})=\vec{0}$, then the value of $3(\vec{c}.\vec{a})$ is equal to _______.
Let $ABC$ be a triangle such that $\vec{BC}=\vec{a},\vec{CA}=\vec{b}$, $\vec{AB}=\vec{c},|\vec{a}|=6\sqrt{2},|\vec{b}|=2\sqrt{3}$ and $\vec{b}\cdot \vec{c}=12$ Consider the statements : $(S1)$: $|(\vec{a}\times \vec{b})+(\vec{c}\times \vec{b})|-|\vec{c}|=6(2\sqrt{2}-1)$ $(S2)$: $\angle ABC={\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}(\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}})$. Then
Let $\vec{a}=\alpha \hat{i}+3\hat{j}-\hat{k},\vec{b}=3\hat{i}-\beta \hat{j}+4\hat{k}$ and $\vec{c}=\hat{i}+2\hat{j}-2\hat{k}$ where $\alpha ,\beta \in R$ be three vectors. If the projection of $\vec{a}$ on $\vec{c}$ is $\frac{10}{3}$ and$\vec{b}\times \vec{c}=-6\hat{i}+10\hat{j}+7\hat{k}$ , then the value of $\alpha +\beta$ equal to
Let $A,B,C$ be three points whose position vectors respectively are: $\vec{a}=\hat{i}+4\hat{j}+3\hat{k}$ $\vec{b}=2\hat{i}+\alpha \hat{j}+4\hat{k},\alpha \in R$ $\vec{c}=3\hat{i}-2\hat{j}+5\hat{k}$ If $\alpha$ is the smallest positive integer for which $\vec{a},\vec{b},\vec{c}$ are non-collinear, then the length of the median, $\triangle ABC$, through $A$ is:
Let $\theta$ be the angle between the vectors $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$, where $|\vec{a}|=4,|\vec{b}|=3$ and $\theta \in (\frac{\pi }{4},\frac{\pi }{3})$. Then ${|(\vec{a}-\vec{b})\times (\vec{a}+\vec{b})|}^{2}+4{(\vec{a}\cdot \vec{b})}^{2}$ is equal to ______
If $\vec{a}=2\hat{i}+\hat{j}+3\hat{k},\vec{b}=3\hat{i}+3\hat{j}+\hat{k}$ and $\vec{c}={c}_{1}\hat{i}+{c}_{2}\hat{j}+{c}_{3}\hat{k}$ are coplanar vectors and $\vec{a}\cdot \vec{c}=5,\vec{b}\perp \vec{c}$, then $122({c}_{1}+{c}_{2}+{c}_{3})$ is equal to ______.
Let $\vec{a}=\hat{i}+\hat{j}+2\hat{k},\vec{b}=2\hat{i}-3\hat{j}+\hat{k}$ and $\vec{c}=\hat{i}-\hat{j}+\hat{k}$ be the three given vectors. Let $\vec{v}$ be a vector in the plane of $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{b}$ whose projection on $\vec{c}$ is $\frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}$. If $\vec{v},\hat{j}=7$, then $\vec{v}\cdot (\hat{i}+\hat{k})$ is equal to
Let $\hat{a},\hat{b}$ be unit vectors. If $\vec{c}$ be a vector such that the angle between $\hat{a}$ and $\vec{c}$ is $\frac{\pi }{12}$, and $\hat{b}=\vec{c}+2(\vec{c}\times \hat{a})$, then ${|6\vec{c}|}^{2}$ is equal to:
Let $a$ and $b$ be two unit vectors such that $|(a+b)+2(a\times b)|=2$. If $\theta \in (0,\pi )$ is the angle between $\hat{a}$ and $\hat{b}$, then among the statements: $(S1):2|\hat{a}\times \hat{b}|=|\hat{a}-\hat{b}|$ $(S2)$ : The projection of $\hat{a}$ on $(\hat{a}+\hat{b})$ is $\frac{1}{2}$
Let $\vec{a}=\alpha \hat{i}+\hat{j}+\beta \hat{k}$ and $\vec{b}=3\hat{i}-5\hat{j}+4\hat{k}$ be two vectors, such that $\vec{a}\times \vec{b}=-\hat{i}+9\hat{i}+12\hat{k}$. Then the projection of $\vec{b}-2\vec{a}$ on $\vec{b}+\vec{a}$ is equal to
Let $P(-2,-1,1)$ and $Q(\frac{56}{17},\frac{43}{17},\frac{111}{17})$ be the vertices of the rhombus $PRQS$. If the direction ratios of the diagonal $RS$ are $\alpha ,-1,\beta$, where both $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are integers of minimum absolute values, then ${\alpha }^{2}+{\beta }^{2}$ is equal to
If the length of the perpendicular drawn from the point $P(a,4,2),a>0$ on the line $\frac{x+1}{2}=\frac{y-3}{3}=\frac{z-1}{-1}$ is $2\sqrt{6}$ units and $Q({\alpha }_{1},{\alpha }_{2},{\alpha }_{3})$ is the image of the point $P$ in this line, then $a+\sum _{i=1}^{3}{\alpha }_{i}$ is equal to
Let $Q$ and $R$ be two points on the line $\frac{x+1}{2}=\frac{y+2}{3}=\frac{z-1}{2}$ at a distance $\sqrt{26}$ from the point $P(4,2,7)$. Then the square of the area of the triangle $PQR$ is ________.
If the shortest distance between the lines $\vec{r}=(-\hat{i}+3\hat{k})+\lambda (\hat{i}-a\hat{j})$ and $\vec{r}=(-\hat{j}+2\hat{k})+\mu (\hat{i}-\hat{j}+\hat{k})$ is $\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}$, then the integral value of $a$ is equal to _____
If two straight lines whose direction cosines are given by the relations $l+m-n=0,3{l}^{2}+{m}^{2}+cnl=0$ are parallel, then the positive value of $c$ is
If the shortest distance between the lines $\frac{x-1}{2}=\frac{y-2}{3}=\frac{z-3}{\lambda }$ and $\frac{x-2}{1}=\frac{y-4}{4}=\frac{z-5}{5}$ is $\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}$, then the sum of all possible values of $\lambda$ is:
Let a line having direction ratios $1,-4,2$ intersect the lines $\frac{x-7}{3}=\frac{y-1}{-1}=\frac{z+2}{1}$ and $\frac{x}{2}=\frac{y-7}{3}=\frac{z}{1}$ at the points $A$ and $B$. Then ${(AB)}^{2}$ is equal to
The line of shortest distance between the lines $\frac{x-2}{0}=\frac{y-1}{1}=\frac{z}{1}$ and $\frac{x-3}{2}=\frac{y-5}{2}=\frac{z-1}{1}$ makes an angle of ${\mathrm{sin}}^{-1}(\sqrt{\frac{2}{27}})$ with the plane $P:ax-y-z=0,(a>0)$. If the image of the point $(1,1,-5)$ in the plane $P$ is $(\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma )$, then $\alpha +\beta -\gamma$ is equal to _____ .