Past JEE Main Entrance Papers Set-I

Overview

The three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system consists of three perpendicular axes: the \(x\)-axis, the \(y\)-axis, and the \(z\)-axis. In two-dimensional space, the coordinate plane is defined by a pair of perpendicular axes. These axes allow us to name any location within the plane. In three dimensions, we define coordinate planes by the coordinate axes, just as in two dimensions. There are three axes now, so there are three intersecting pairs of axes. Each pair of axes forms a coordinate plane: the \(x y\)-plane, the \(x z\)-plane, and the \(y z\)-plane (Figure below). We define the \(x y\)-plane formally as the following set: \(\{(x, y, 0): x, y \in R \}\). Similarly, the \(x z\)-plane and the \(y z\)-plane are defined as \(\{(x, 0, z): x, z \in R \}\) and \(\{(0, y, z): y, z \in R \}\), respectively.

In two dimensions, the coordinate axes partition the plane into four quadrants. Similarly, the coordinate planes divide space between them into eight regions about the origin, called octants as shown in Figure below.

Coordinate of a point in space

An arbitrary point \(P\) in three-dimensional space is assigned coordinates \(\left(x_0, y_0, z_0\right)\) provided that

  • The plane through \(P\) parallel to the \(y z\)-plane intersects the \(x[latex]-axis at [latex]\left(x_0, 0,0\right)\);
  • The plane through \(P\) parallel to the \(x z\)-plane intersects the \(y\)-axis at \(\left(0, y_0, 0\right)\);
  • The plane through \(P\) parallel to the \(x y\)-plane intersects the \(z\)-axis at \(\left(0,0, z_0\right)\).
  • The space coordinates \(\left(x_0, y_0, z_0\right)\) are called the Cartesian coordinates of \(P\) or simply the rectangular coordinates of \(P\).

Let \(P\) be any point in the space, not in a coordinate plane, and through \(P\) pass planes parallel to the coordinate planes \(y z, z x\) and \(x y\) meeting the coordinate axes in the points \(A , B , C\) respectively. Three planes are

  • ADPF || \(y z\)-plane
  • BDPE || \(x z\)-plane
  • CFPE || \(x y\)-plane

These planes determine a rectangular parallelopiped which has three pairs of rectangular faces (AD P F, O B E C),(B D P E, C F A O) and (A O B D, FPEC) (Shown in Figure below)

Hence the coordinates \(x, y z\) of a point \(P\) are the perpendicular distance of \(P\) from the three coordinate planes \(y z, z x\) and \(x y\), respectively.

Sign of coordinates of a point

Distance formula

The distance between two points \(P \left(x_1, y_1, z_1\right)\) and \(Q \left(x_2, y_2\right.\), \(z_2\) ) is given by
\(
PQ =\sqrt{\left.x_2-x_1\right)^2+\left(y_2-y_1\right)^2+\left(z_2-z_1\right)^2}
\)
A paralleopiped is formed by planes drawn through the points \(\left(x_1, y_1, z_1\right)\) and \(\left(x_2, y_2, z_2\right)\) parallel to the coordinate planes. The length of edges are \(x_2-x_1, y_2-y_1, z_2-z_1\) and length of diagonal is \(\sqrt{\left(x_2-x_1\right)^2+\left(y_2-y_1\right)^2+\left(z_2-z_1\right)^2}\).

Section formula

The coordinates of the point \(R\) which divides the line segment joining two points \(P \left(x_1, y_1, z_1\right)\) and \(Q \left(x_2, y_2, z_2\right)\) internally or externally in the ratio \(m: n\) are given by \(\left(\frac{m x_2+n x_1}{m+n}, \frac{m y_2+n y_1}{m+n}, \frac{m z_2+n z_1}{m+n},\right),\left(\frac{m x_2-n x_1}{m-n}, \frac{m y_2-n y_1}{m-n}, \frac{m z_2-n z_1}{m-n}\right)\), respectively.
The coordinates of the mid-point of the line segment joining two points \(P \left(x_1, y_1, z_1\right)\) and \(Q \left(x_2, y_2, z_2\right)\) are \(\left(\frac{x_1+x_2}{2}, \frac{y_1+y_2}{2}, \frac{z_1+z_2}{2}\right)\).
The coordinates of the centroid of the triangle, whose vertices are \(\left(x_1, y_1, z_1\right),\left(x_2, y_2, z_2\right)\) and \(x_3, y_3, z_3\) are \(\left(\frac{x_1+x_2+x_3}{3}, \frac{y_1+y_2+y_3}{3}, \frac{z_1+z_2+z_3}{3}\right)\).

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