How do I find the direction angle of a vector? Let $v= -3 i-10j$. I found the dot product to be $109$ and the magnitude to be $\sqrt{11881}$. I divided it out and it came out to be one. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please help.
 A: If $\vec{v}=a\vec{i}+b\vec{j}$, then changing to polar coordinates gives $r=\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$ for the magnitude and $\theta=\arctan(b/a)$ is the direction angle.
A quick internet search yields many documents instructing how to find the direction angle of a vector. 
A: A couple of things:  (a) Isn't the dot-product an operation defined between 2 different vectors?  If so, it's not clear in your example what the 2nd vector is. (b) Have you graphed this vector with respect to the origin on an XY-graph? After doing that, it should be a matter of employing well-known trigonometric rules to find out the "angle of the vector".
A: Dot product of two vectors $\vec{X}= ai+bj $ and $\vec{Y}= ci+dj $ is precisely,
$\vec{X}\cdot\vec{Y} = ac+bd $
Dot product is not defined for one vector. You need to have 2 vectors (same or different, that doesn't matter ) to define their dot product. 
And magnitude of a vector $\vec{X}= ai+bj$ is equal to $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$
So, I think you've calculated dot product of $\vec{v}= -3i-10j $ with itself. Only that way you can get $109$ .
And  $|\vec{v}| =\sqrt{(-3)^2+(-10)^2} = \sqrt{100+9}=\sqrt{109}$
