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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Berea_College/Introductory_Physics%3A_Berea_College/25%3A_Vectors/25.07%3A_Sample_problems_and_solutions
      We can find the angle that this vector makes with the x axis by taking the scalar product of the displacement vector and the unit vector in the x direction (1,0,0): \[\begin{aligned} \hat x \c...We can find the angle that this vector makes with the x axis by taking the scalar product of the displacement vector and the unit vector in the x direction (1,0,0): ˆxd=(1)(3)+(0)(3)+(0)(3)=3 This is equal to the product of the magnitude of ˆx and d multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them: \[\begin{aligned} \hat x \cdot \vec d &= ||\hat x||||\vec d||\cos\theta = (1)(\sqrt{3^2+3^2+3^2})\cos\theta= \sqrt{27}\…

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