Cross Product of Vectors
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This Demonstration computes and displays the cross product (black) of two vectors
(red) and
(blue) in three dimensions. The dot product
of the vectors is a scalar (number), while the cross product
is a vector.
Contributed by: S. M. Blinder and Amy Blinder (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Snapshot 1: when and
are in the
,
plane,
has only a
component
Snapshot 2: this shows the unit vector relationship
Snapshot 3: when and
are collinear, their cross product vanishes
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