Normals and Planes

A plane is a flat, 2-dimensional surface embedded in a 3 or more dimensional space. The fact that the cross product of vectors u and v is perpendicular to both u and v (see worksheet in section 1-3) can be used to obtain the equation of a plane. First, lets load some packages.

> restart:with(linalg):with(plots):with(plottools):

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Normals and Planes

Three Points Determine a Plane

Computer Graphics

Exercises