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“Products” of Vectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

D.K. Picken
D.K. Picken*
Affiliation:
Ormond College, University of Melbourne
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1. Whence these “products”? Why one a scalar (actually a real number—see below) and the other a vector? These are interesting questions, if once we shake ourselves free from inherited knowledge of the facts and become curious as to the why and the wherefore.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 17 , Issue 225 , October 1933 , pp. 261 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1933

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page 262 note * In each of these, as in other similar, cases, the proposition is a definition of the precise use of the term “product” in the context in question—based on the physical facts of a relationship expressible by the “product” relationship between the pure vectors which are measures of the physical quantities in question.