VECTOR PRODUCT


Meaning of VECTOR PRODUCT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1878

: a vector c whose length is the product of the lengths of two vectors a and b and the sine of their included angle, whose direction is perpendicular to their plane, and whose direction is that in which a right-handed screw rotated from a toward b along axis c would move — called also cross product

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