&x - Maple Help
For the best experience, we recommend viewing online help using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Our website is currently undergoing maintenance, which may result in occasional errors while browsing. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and are working swiftly to restore full functionality. Thank you for your patience.

Online Help

Student[VectorCalculus]

  

CrossProduct

  

compute the cross product of Vectors and differential operators

 

Calling Sequence

Parameters

Description

Examples

Calling Sequence

CrossProduct(v1, v2)

v1 &x v2

Parameters

v1

-

Vector, Vector-valued procedure, or differential operator

v2

-

Vector, Vector-valued procedure, or differential operator

Description

• 

The CrossProduct(v1, v2) calling sequence computes the cross product (vector product) of v1 and v2, where v1 and v2 can be Vectors, vector fields, Student[VectorCalculus][Del], or Student[VectorCalculus][Nabla].

  

Note: You can enter vector fields as Vector-valued procedures or operators.

• 

The Student[VectorCalculus] package has an &x cross product operator that you can use in place of the CrossProduct command. For example, CrossProduct(v1, v2) is equivalent to v1&xv2.

  

Also, Del&xF is equivalent to Curl(F).

Examples

withStudentVectorCalculus:

CrossProducta,b,c,d,e,f

a,b,c&xd,e,f

FVectorFieldy,x,0

Del&xF

CrossProduct,F

SetCoordinatescylindrical

cylindricalr,θ,z

(1)

r1RootedVector2,2,1,root=1,2,3

r1221

(2)

r2RootedVector3,1,0,root=1,2,3

r23−10

(3)

r1&xr2

13−8

(4)

See Also

Student[VectorCalculus]

Student[VectorCalculus][Curl]

Student[VectorCalculus][Del]

Student[VectorCalculus][SetCoordinates]

Student[VectorCalculus][Vector]

Student[VectorCalculus][VectorField]

 


Download Help Document