How do you find the angle between two lines in three dimensional vector space given two points on line 1 and the vector equation of line 2
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Find the direction vector of line 1
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Find the scalar product of the direction vectors of lines 1 and 2
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Calculate the magnitude of both direction vectors
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Use (equation on whiteboard) to find the cosine of the angle
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Calculate the angle
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