Unit Vector in the Direction of a Given Vector in the Plane:
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Find a unit vector, u, in the direction of a = 3i - 2j.
The unit vector has the same direction as a, so it will be a multiple of it. Its length must be one. Hence we can obtain it by dividing the vector by its length: