Abstract When I compute something, I see it is correct, but sometimes my intuition doesn't work. Especially, I am not good at statistics, though, sometimes I don't see geometry also. I can show you such example this time. Vector projection and directional cosine My friend Dietger asked me a problem. Figure 1 shows the problem. Let \(\mathbf{h}'\) is a projected vector of \(\mathbf{h}\) on the \(\mathbf{e}_1,\mathbf{e}_2\) plane of an orthogonal coordinate system. Where \(\mathbf{h}\) is an arbitrary unit vector. Let \(\mathbf{h}_1\) is the projection of \(\mathbf{h}\) on the axis \(\mathbf{e}_1\). Then show \[ \cos \alpha = |\mathbf{h}'| \cos \phi. \] It's intuitively odd for me that there is a length ratio \(h'\) between \(\cos \alpha\) and \( \cos \phi\). Figure 1. Two projections of an unit vector \(\mathbf{h}\). However, these are projections, therefore some \(\cos\) relationships. Let's start with \(\mathbf{h}_1\). \(\mathbf{h}_1\)
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