Cross products and the Hodge star operator

Cross products

The cross product

\(v\times u\)

Cross product is a bilinear map

This is a bilinear map from two vectors in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) to another vector in the same space.

\(V\times V \rightarrow V\)

Calculating the cross product

This is calcualted by:

\(u\times v=||u|| ||v|| \sin(\theta )n\)

The resulting vector is perpendicular to both input vectors.

The Hodge star operator

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