Question
What are the direction cosines of Y-axis?

Answer

The y-axis makes angles 90°, 0° and 90° with x, y and z axes, respectively.
Therefore, the direction cosines of x-axis are cos 90°, cos 0°, cos 90°, i.e. 0, 1, 0.

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