Vector Cross Products and the Right Hand Rule - Brain Waves

1,769 views · Published 17 September 2016 · 13:21 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: purdueMET · 2016 · Education

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The right hand rule shows up often in analyses that use all three spatial dimensions.  What is the right hand rule and where did it come from?  It turns our to be related to the vector cross product and is easy to see once you know what a cross product is.

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