Timeline for Use cases for area of parallelogram (from vector addition)
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| Mar 15, 2023 at 6:46 | vote | accept | RudyJD | ||
| Mar 15, 2023 at 5:05 | comment | added | Aiden | @RudyJD I don't know of an example that emphasizes this connection. Instead, I like to think that the two operations tell you different things about the same parallelogram: vector addition tells you about the diagonal of the parallelogram, and the cross product tells you about the area of the parallelogram. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 4:51 | comment | added | RudyJD | OK so the magnitude of the cross product IS the area of a parallelogram constructed from its vectors. That satisfies my first question. I get that these are separate operations, but is there an example of using the cross product that is motivated by this connection tho? | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 3:46 | history | answered | Aiden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |