designer:
Michael Danziger
educational validator:
John Belcher
supported by
the National Science Foundation
published by
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This item is an interactive three-dimensional animation that illustrates vector cross product. Users set angle theta from zero to 360 degrees, and then rotate a vector through the angle. An animated hand automatically points in the proper direction according to the Right Hand Rule. No mathematics is introduced.
This item is part of a collection of visualizations developed by the MIT TEAL project to supplement an introductory course in calculus-based electricity and magnetism. Lecture notes, labs, and presentations are also available as part of MIT's Open Courseware Repository: MIT Open Courseware: Electricity and Magnetism
Please note that this resource requires
Shockwave.
<a href="https://www.compadre.org/introphys/items/detail.cfm?ID=9935">National Science Foundation. MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 31, 2008.</a>
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2004), WWW Document, (http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/CrossProduct/crossProd.htm).
MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2004), <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/CrossProduct/crossProd.htm>.
MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors. (2008, July 31). Retrieved September 7, 2024, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/CrossProduct/crossProd.htm
National Science Foundation. MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 31, 2008. http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/CrossProduct/crossProd.htm (accessed 7 September 2024).
MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. 31 July 2008. National Science Foundation. 7 Sep. 2024 <http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/CrossProduct/crossProd.htm>.
@misc{
Title = {MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors},
Publisher = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
Volume = {2024},
Number = {7 September 2024},
Month = {July 31, 2008},
Year = {2004}
}
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