Question

Plz explain, Is this true about orthogonal vectors?

Distance between any 2 Orthogonal unit vectors in any inner product space is always equal to `sqrt2` ?

Answer 1

Yes.

Explanation:

Unit vectors, by definition, have length = 1.
Orthogonal vectors, by definition, are perpendicular to each other, and therefore make a right triangle. The "distance between" the vectors can be taken to mean the hypotenuse of this right triangle, and the length of this is given by the pythagorean theorem:
`c = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)`

since, for this case, a and b both = 1, we have

`c = sqrt(1^2 + 1^2) = sqrt(2)`

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