Calculate the angle between: a = (10, 5)T and b = (8, 12)T
The lengths are:
| a | = 125,
| b | =
208.
The dot product is:
(10, 5)T / 125 · (8, 12)T /
208
= (10*8 + 5*12) / (
125
208)
= 140 / (125
208)
= 140 /
(125*208) = 140 /
26000
= 0.86824
so the angle is: arc cos ( 0.86824 ) = 29.745°
This chapter had quite a bit of numerical computation in it. Be careful that you did not loose sight of the important points: