Lesson: The Vector Product of Two Vectors Physics • First Year of Secondary School

Students will be able to

• recognize that the result of a vector product operation is another vector,
• use to find the vector product of two vectors that are given in component form, where both vectors are in the plane,
• recognize that and have the same magnitude but point in opposite directions,
• state the results of and ,
• recognize that if two vectors are parallel to each other, their vector product is zero,
• recognize that the vector product of two vectors has a maximum value when the two vectors are perpendicular,
• use to find the vector product of two vectors, where the length of each vector and the angle between them are known.