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Pre-Class Chatter

Feel free to turn on your mic and chat with people or use the zoom chat. Or chat with your group in your Jamboard.

9:00 AM Jamboard Links

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  • Kallan DuPaix
  • Spencer Hatch
  • Zack Kunkel
  • Marissa Mavy
  • Santiago Meza Jr
  • Spencer Blau
  • Jordan Cluff
  • Ryan Cox
  • Makenzy Pharis
  • Gavin Slater
  • Ethan Barrus
  • Rachel Hardy
  • Parker Kemp
  • Denali Russell
  • Cecilia Sanders
  • Jeremy Boyce
  • Karen Castillo Avendano
  • Mason Peterson
  • Luke Romeril
  • Nathan Thompson
  • Kylar Dominguez Pluma
  • Logan Grover
  • Tanner Harding
  • Olivia Houghton
  • Jae Kim
  • Kai Alger
  • Nathan Bryans
  • Lucy Fisher
  • Chase Fry
  • Braydon Robinson
  • Evan Duker
  • Ralph Oliver
  • Tyler Stokes

12:45 PM Jamboard Links

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  • Adam Hopkins
  • Oscar Enrique Gonzalez Mosqueda
  • Reed Hunsaker
  • Rick Miller
  • Trevor Fike
  • Forrest Thompson
  • Hamilton Birkeland
  • Jeremy Jacobsen
  • Michael Clarke
  • Adrick Checketts
  • Alan Loureiro
  • Christian Shamo
  • Preston Yost
  • Carter Cooper
  • Chad Larkin
  • Joshua Strang
  • Michael Ruiz
  • Brian Odhiambo
  • Cheyenne Pratt
  • Jacob Gravelle
  • Matty Davis
  • Aaron Reed
  • Brad Johnston
  • Hayley Kerkman
  • Jaden Camargo
  • Tanner Anderson

Announcements

Hot-Chocolate Break Room

  • Looking for SDL partners?
  • Hoping to find a study group (in person or via Zoom)? You can each host your own Zoom meetings without faculty.
  • Share anything with the class.

Self-Directed Learning Projects

  1. Have a specific plan that helps you develop deeper understanding. Think about Bloom's Taxonomy (see 1 and 2), and focus your efforts towards the highest levels.
  2. Carry out the plan, making modifications as needed (follow new leads, keep in the time constraints, etc.).
  3. Create something based on what you learned (Bloom's taxonomy).
  4. Share your work publicly.
  5. Complete a short steward report to reflect on your learning process.

Rapid Recall

  • Give a vector of length 4 that is parallel to the vector $\vec v = (-1,2,-2)$.

Solution

A quick answer is $$\frac{4}{3}(-1,2,-2)=\left(-\frac{4}{3}, \frac{8}{3}, -\frac{8}{3} \right).$$ The length of $\vec v$ is $|\vec v| = \sqrt{(-1)^2+(2)^2+(-2)^2} = \sqrt{9} =3$. A unit vector is then $$\hat v = \frac{\vec v}{|\vec v|} = \frac{(-1,2,-2)}{3}=\left(-\frac{1}{3}, \frac{2}{3}, -\frac{2}{3} \right).$$ The requested vector is then $$\vec w = 4\hat u = \frac{4}{3}(-1,2,-2)=\left(-\frac{4}{3}, \frac{8}{3}, -\frac{8}{3} \right).$$

  • Give a vector equation of a line that passes through $(1,2)$ and is parallel to $(3,4)$.

Solution

$\vec r(t)=\left<3,4\right>\,t + \left<1,2\right>$

  • Use the law of cosines ($c^2=a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\theta$) to find the angle between the vectors $\vec u = (-1,5)$ and $\vec v = (2,4)$.

Solution

The vectors have lengths $a=|\vec u| = \sqrt{(-1)^2+(5)^2} = \sqrt{26}$ and $b=|\vec v| = \sqrt{(2)^2+(4)^2} = \sqrt{20}$. The difference is $\vec v-\vec u = (3, -1)$, and has length $c = |\vec v - \vec u| = \sqrt{10}$. From the law of cosines, we get $10 = 26+20-2\sqrt{26}\sqrt{10}\cos \theta$. Solving for $\cos\theta$ gives $\cos \theta = \frac{10-26-20}{-2\sqrt{26}\sqrt{10}}$, which means $$\theta = \arccos\left(\frac{10-26-20}{-2\sqrt{26}\sqrt{10}}\right).$$

Group problems

Remember to take turns writing on your group's Jamboard (links at the top of the page). The goal is to have a discussion about how to do things. This is most easily accomplished when you stick together as a group. Avoid "divide and conquer", which can be effective for getting a bunch of things done, but won't facilitate discussion.

  1. Give a vector equation of the line that passes through the point $(1,2,3)$ and $(-2,4,9)$ (all distances are in meters, and times in minutes).
  2. Modify your vector equation from the previous part so that the speed of an object that is tracked with this equation is 3 meters per unit time.
  3. An object starts at $P=(1,2,3)$ and each unit of time its displacement is 2 units in the direction of $\vec v=(-4,5,1)$. Give an equation for the position $(x,y,z)$ at any time $t$.
  4. Use the law of cosines ($c^2=a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\theta$ or $\vec u\cdot \vec v = |\vec u||\vec v|\cos\theta$) to find the angle between each pair of vectors below.
  • $(-2,1)$ and $(1,3)$.
  • $(2,3)$ and $(-1,4)$
  • $(\pi,e)$ and $(\sqrt{17},c)$
  • $(1,2,3)$ and $(-7,2,1)$
  • $(1,2,3)$ and $(x,y,z)$.

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