The Cross Product

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The cross product is an operation between two 3-dimensional vectors that returns a third vector orthogonal (i.e., perpendicular) to the first two. For vectors and , the cross product of and (notated as ) is . One way to remember the cross product of and is to calculate it with the following determinant:

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