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Show that |a|b+|b|a is perpendicular to |a|b|b|a for any two nonzero vectors a and b

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Consider the problem

(|a|b+ba)(|a|bba)=|a|2bb|a|bba+|a|babb2aa=|a|2b2|a|bab+|a|babb2|a|2=0because(aa=|a|2,ab=ba)

Therefore,
|a|b+ba is perpendicular to |a|bba

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