Edexcel FP3 — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFP3 (Further Pure Mathematics 3)
TopicVectors: Cross Product & Distances

2. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{045545c7-06d9-40b6-9d01-fc792ab0aa07-01_222_241_525_2042} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Figure 1}
\end{figure} The points \(A , B\) and \(C\) have position vectors \(\mathbf { a } , \mathbf { b }\) and \(\mathbf { c }\) respectively, relative to a fixed origin \(O\), as shown in Figure 1. It is given that $$\mathbf { a } = \mathbf { i } + \mathbf { j } , \quad \mathbf { b } = \mathbf { 3 i } - \mathbf { j } + \mathbf { k } \quad \text { and } \quad \mathbf { c } = \mathbf { 2 i } + \mathbf { j } - \mathbf { k } .$$ Calculate
  1. \(\mathbf { b } \times \mathbf { c }\),
  2. \(\mathbf { a . } ( \mathbf { b } \times \mathbf { c } )\),
  3. the area of triangle \(O B C\),
  4. the volume of the tetrahedron \(O A B C\).