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Re: Cross product

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  • Subject: [mg5435] Re: Cross product
  • From: von_Aschen at unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Harald von Aschen)
  • Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 00:26:09 -0500
  • Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GHS Duisburg Germany
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi Anders,

Anders Sneckenborg <anders at simbal.se> wrote:

> What is the command to calculate the cross product of two vectors?

You can define it for yourself or easier use one of the packages coming
with Mma:

      Needs["Calculus`VectorAnalysis`"]
here the command is "CrossProduct"

or use

      Needs["LinearAlgebra`CrossProduct`"]

with the Command "Cross"

e.g.:

      Cross[{a1, a2, a3}, {b1, b2, b3}]

For more help to these packages see "Guide to Standard Mathematica
Packages" or the online help. 

Kind regards, Harald
-- 
Harald von Aschen
eMail: von_aschen at uni-duisburg.de


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