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title: "cross product"
type: concept
related: [Cross Product]
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhcross_product/
confidence: high
status: active
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constituents additional information lack of inverse of cross product The cross product doesn&rsquo;t have an inverse
geometric interpretation of cross product \begin{equation} a \times b = |\vec{a}| |\vec{b}| \sin \theta n \end{equation}
where, \(n\) is the unit vector in some direction.
The length of the resulting vector in the cross product is the area of the parallelogram formed by the two vectors.
