Re: Cross product with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg15558] Re: Cross product with Mathematica
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:44:39 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi Sylvain Mathematica 3.0 has a Cross[] function to calculate the cross product. If I remember right the 2.2 version has in the Calculus`Cross.m the definitions. But You will get only the blank definition and things like 0= Cross[ a, Cross[ a, b]] will not simplifyed. Hope that helps Jens smoisan at total.net wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to do some calculations involving cross product over the > weekend using Mathematica. That's when I discovered there's no way of > doing any cross product using this software, at least, not in the > version we have at the univerity which is 2.2 for Solaris. Is this > possible in another version? > Is there an add-on available somewhere so I can do cross product? Any > help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance.