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What are the direction cosines of Z-axis?

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We know z axis makes an angle `90 degree` with the x axis and y axis and makes an angle `0 degree` with z axis itself.

So the dcs of z axis are `(cos90o,cos90o,cos0o)=(0,0,1)`.
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