Proving the point les on the plane is fine, but the second part of this question is throwing me off a bit. Do I need to prove that the line is also parallel to the plane? If so, I have FP1 vectors knowledge so if you can, can you use the cross product somewhere or maybe the dot product to prove the second part? <@&791435371564892232>
#Proving a line lies entirely on a plane
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Find a (mu, lambda) for every t is the most intuitive way
use cross product rule to find the equation of the cartesian plane and then use the equation of the line to sub it into the plane
if you get for instance 15=15 23=23 than it will lie entirely in the plane
as an alternative to the above method
- find the equation of the plane in the form r.n=k using cross product
- show that n is perpendicular to the direction vector of the line using dot product.
This isn’t sufficient, you would have to show that the position vector of the line also lies on the plane
If you don’t want to cross product, you can sub in lambda = 3t-2 and mu = t+1 which comes out as the same equation as the line.