cross product
Noun
Meaning
a vector that is the product of two other vectors
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Any force directed parallel to the particle's position vector does not produce a torque. citation It follows from the properties of the cross product that the torque vector is perpendicular to both the position and force vectors.
As the cross product of a finite number of compact convex sets, is also compact and convex.
An illustration of the cross product The cross product a × b is defined so that a, b, and a × b also becomes a right-handed system (but note that a and b are not necessarily orthogonal ).
Clifford simplified the quaternion study by isolating the dot product and cross product of two vectors from the complete quaternion product.
Commutator and cross product The commutator of two octonions x and y is given by : This is antisymmetric and imaginary.
For example, : Relation to dot and cross product Pauli vectors elegantly map these commutation and anticommutation relations to corresponding vector products.