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nikdorinn [45]
3 years ago
13

What does the cross product between two vectors represent, and what are some of its properties

Mathematics
1 answer:
Brut [27]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

See explanation below.

Step-by-step explanation:

Definition

The cross product is a binary operation between two vectors defined as following:

Let two vectors a = (a_1 ,a_2,a_3) , b=(b_1, b_2, b_3)

The cross product is defined as:

a x b = (a_2 b_3 -a_3 b_2, a_3 b_1 -a_1 b_3 ,a_1 b_2 -a_2 b_1)

The last one is the math definition but we have a geometric interpretation as well.

We define the angle between two vectors a and b \theta and we assume that 0\leq \theta \leq \pi and we have the following equation:

|axb| = |a| |b| sin(\theta)

And then we conclude that the cross product is orthogonal to both of the original vectors.

Some properties

Let a and b vectors

If two vectors a and b are parallel that implies |axb| =0

If axb \neq 0 then axb is orthogonal to both a and b.

Let u,v,w vectors and c a scalar we have:

uxv =-v xu

ux (v+w) = uxv + uxw (Distributive property)

(cu)xv = ux(cv) =c (uxv)

u. (vxw) = (uxv).w

Other application of the cross product are related to find the area of a parallelogram for two dimensions where:

A = |axb|

And when we want to find the volume of a parallelepiped in 3 dimensions:

V= |a. (bxc)|

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