IB skill practice

Find angles between planes

Use normal vectors and scalar products to determine angles between planes.

Paper 1, Paper 2 5 marks Difficulty 3

Find angles between planes - visual normal reasoning

Two plane normals have lengths 16 and 20, with absolute dot product 160. Enter \(\cos\theta\) for the angle between the planes.

Worked practice: result and interpretation

Calculate the requested result first, then choose the interpretation that follows from it.