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Engineering Physics / February 5, 2022

Cross Product

The cross product of two vectors a and b is defined only in three-dimensional space and is denoted by a × b. The cross product a × b is defined as a vector c that is perpendicular to both a and b, with a direction given by the right-hand rule and a magnitude equal to […]

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The cross product of two vectors a and b is defined only in three-dimensional space and is denoted by a × b.

The cross product a × b is defined as a vector c that is perpendicular to both a and b, with a direction given by the right-hand rule and a magnitude equal to the area of the parallelogram that the vectors span.