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Physics Tutorial 2.5 - Vector Product of Two Vectors

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There are 6 lessons in this physics tutorial covering Vector Product of Two Vectors. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Vector Product of Two Vectors and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific physics lesson as required to build your physics knowledge of Vector Product of Two Vectors. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.

In this Physics tutorial, you will learn:

  • The meaning of cross product of two vectors
  • What does the cross product represent geometrically?
  • How to calculate the cross product of two vectors?
  • How to find the direction of cross product vector?
  • How to calculate the cross product in coordinates?
  • Which are some applications of cross product in Physics?

Introduction

In our previous Physics Tutorial, we discussed the "Dot (scalar) product" of two vectors. It was explained that when two vectors are multiplied in scalar mode, the result is a scalar (number). This seems a bit strange to understand, since we expect the product to be a vector considering the "closure" property of multiplication (i.e. the product of a multiplication belongs to the same set or category as the two factors). However, we saw that this is possible in dot multiplication of vectors.

But, now that we have explained the meaning of dot product, it is much simpler to understand the other type of vectors multiplication, i.e. the cross (vector) product of two vectors.

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2.5Vector Product of Two Vectors
Lesson IDPhysics Lesson TitleLessonVideo
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2.5.1The meaning of cross product of vectors multiplication
2.5.2How to calculate the cross product of two vectors?
2.5.3What is the direction of the vector product obtained by the cross product of two vectors?
2.5.4Cross product of vectors in coordinates
2.5.5Applications of cross product in Physics
2.5.6Mixed product of vectors

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