The product of two real vectors in three dimensions which is itself a vector at right angles to both the original vectors. Its magnitude is the product of the magnitudes of the original vectors and the sine of the angle between their directions.
Written as a × b
Compare with inner product
Also called cross product
Example sentencesExamples
- This shows that the vector product of two direct lattice vectors is easily expressed in terms of the basic reciprocal vectors.
- As the name says, a scalar product of two vectors results in a scalar quantity, and a vector product in a vector quantity.
- We can use the direction perpendicular to this plane to give us the direction of our vector product.
- The vector product is, from the properties of determinants, linear in both its vector factors.
- Today's vector products are a watered-down version of quaternion multiplication.