00:01
Okay, so we have an equation for a line, and we have the equation for a plane.
00:06
We want to know if the line intersects the plane.
00:09
So here's what i'm going to do.
00:11
I'm going to write this out as three separate equations, parametric equations for the plane.
00:24
S and t are parameters on the plane itself.
01:11
So then the equation for our line gives us really two relationships between x, y, and z.
01:20
It looks like three, but there's actually only two that are linearly independent.
01:27
So i'm going to start with the left -hand equal sign.
01:32
I'm going to plug in from up here in terms of x and y.
02:33
So now we'll take the other possible equal sign.
02:40
We had three choices.
02:41
I'm just picking another one.
02:51
So here's another equation.
03:03
So we have to solve that pair of equations.
03:05
So there's our values of s and t where the intersection occurs.
03:17
Okay, so there's the coordinates of the point of intersection between the plane and the line.
03:31
So to determine the angle between the line and the plane, we need two things.
03:37
We need the normal vector to the plane, which is pretty easy to find.
03:41
And we also want to know the direction vector of the line.
03:46
Alright? so let's focus on the line right now...