I'm watching some lectures on electromagnetism from NPTEL on Youtube.
Lecture 3 on Coulomb's Law, at 29minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A45kt2U3U8&feature=player_profilepage#t=1740s
The professor expands this:
\frac{1}{1+\frac{2dsin(\theta)}{r_1}}
into...
I can plot them, and I can see the angle, but I'm interested in calculating the angle.
When I use the dot product I get the correct result, but I cannot see where my mistake is while using the cross product.
Homework Statement
Find the angle between
\begin{align*}
\vec{A} = 10\hat{y} + 2\hat{z} \\
and \\
\vec{B} = -4\hat{y}+0.5\hat{z}
\end{align*}
using the cross product.
The answer is given to be 161.5 degrees.
Homework Equations
\left| \vec{A} \times \vec{B} \right| = \left|...