Analytic Animations: The Cross Product

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Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2008 · Science & Technology

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This series of three animations shows the cross product.  Although we get to see the cross product of two basis vectors creates a third, the vision is transient because all share the same time, t = 0.  The input can be made dynamic which does not alter the cross product.  If the order of multiplication is reversed, the cross product is smaller, but still blinks into existence only while t = 0.

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