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.
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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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