University Calculus: Early Transcendentals (3rd Edition)

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

Chapter 11 - Questions to Guide Your Review - Page 637: 9

Answer

See the explanation below.

Work Step by Step

The geometrical interpretation of the cross product of two vectors, let us say $u$ and $v$, (can be written as $u \times v$ ) is the magnitude of the cross product of two vectors $u$ and $v$ equals the area of the parallelogram formed by the two vectors. Therefore, $ \triangle =|\vec{u} \times \vec{v}|$
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