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 5

Find angles between planes - visual exam conclusion

Two plane normals have lengths 5 and 13, with absolute dot product 30. 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.