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doublemint
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Homework Statement
A vertical building was built on a horizontal plane. The plane is then tilted to A=(0,0,0) B=(1,2,0) and C=(0,3,1). By what angle (in radians) does the building now deviate from the vertical?
Homework Equations
Dot Product
Cross Product
The Attempt at a Solution
So what I did was take the cross product of the B and C, relative to A.
BxC = |2 0|, |1 0|, |1 2| = (2, -1, 3)
...|3 1|, -|0 1|, |0 3|
Now this is the part where I don't know what to do.
I took the Dot product of (BxC) with (0, 1, 0)
theta = arccos (u.v)/(|u||v|) = (-1/[tex]\sqrt{}14[/tex][tex]\sqrt{}1[/tex])
and i got an angle to be 1.84 in radians, which was wrong. I don't know what the answer is, I'm using webwork
So if anyone can help me, that would be great.
Thanks