University Calculus: Early Transcendentals (3rd Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321999584
ISBN 13: 978-0-32199-958-0

Chapter 11 - Questions to Guide Your Review - Page 637: 8

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The two vectors in component form can be expressed as: $u =\lt u_{1}, u_{2}, u_{3}\gt $ and $v =\lt v_{1}, v_{2}, v_{3}\gt $ Their vector cross product can defined as: $u \times v=|u||v| \sin \theta$ The algebraic laws for the dot product are described as below: a) The null vector $0 \times u=0$ b) $u\times (v \times w)=(u \cdot w) v -( u \cdot v) w$ c) The cross product of two vectors obeys the distributive property $u\times (v+w)=u \times v +u \times w$ d) The dot product of two vectors does not obey the commutative property, that is, $v \times u =-( u \times v)$
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