What do cross products and parallelpipeds have in common? The video discusses the geometric representation of the cross product. The geometric interpretation explains why the computational trick in calculating the cross product works.

Concepts

linear algebra, transformations, matrices, matrix operations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Review the calculations of 3-D cross products
• Prove the function used in the explanation is a linear transformation

Classroom Considerations

• The class should understand duality for vector transformations
• 12th video in a series of 15

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Closed captioned to help viewers follow along
• Contains animations to illustrate the discussion

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSN-VM.C.11 MP2