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When you take the cross product of k and i, you get another vector.
jk i don't even know that thingy on k and i sorry
and a vector dotted with another vector will give you a scalar quantity.
can you work the problem out or me im confused really
\[\hat i = \langle 1~,0~,0\rangle\]\[\hat j = \langle 0~,~1~,~0\rangle\]\[\hat k = \langle 0~,~ 0~,~ 1\rangle\]
These are what you call unit vectors because their magnitude is 1. Have you learned about these yet?
So I'll set it up for yuo, and you tell me what you get as your vector. |dw:1424158762530:dw|
Now take the cross product of these two vectors.
what would i come up with?
k x i must be either j or -j, since clockwise, ijk is positive and anticlockwise is taken negative then k x i which is clockwise will give j, the dot product is much easier
If you know the meaning of the cross product first.
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