Engineering Exam Prep

FE Exam Prep 12, Analytic Geometry — Conics, Distance, Vectors


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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to find a circle's center and radius from its general form by completing the square.
- The primary application of the vector dot product on the FE exam: finding the angle between two vectors.
- The physical meaning of the cross product's magnitude (area) and its result (a perpendicular vector).
- How to apply the 3D distance formula, a common exam-style extension of the 2D formula.
- A mnemonic to distinguish between the scalar result of a dot product and the vector result of a cross product.
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Engineering Exam PrepBy Ran Chen, EA, CFP®