What Are Dot Products and Vector Cross Products in Mathematics?

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woodie37

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Nov 29, 2009

Can someone explain to me what a dot product and vector product of two vectors are? Be as detailed as possible please! And also why does the right hand rule for vectors work?

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SystemTheory

Nov 29, 2009

Cross Product Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

Dot Product Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_product

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