Cross Product and Dot Product: Visual explanation

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  • Visual interpretation of the cross product and the dot product of two vectors.
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  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 4 lety +52

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    • @ikrishna06
      @ikrishna06 Před 3 lety +1

      I like your explanation 😉😁

    • @jollyriju2919
      @jollyriju2919 Před 2 lety

      I can't find gear symbols under this video

  • @NicksDomain101
    @NicksDomain101 Před 7 lety +2974

    I love the terrifying climax of the music when they show the hand

    • @ToLearnDev
      @ToLearnDev Před 7 lety +137

      it makes me scared of math

    • @Floppylikescheese
      @Floppylikescheese Před 7 lety +181

      It's like they showed the ultimate universal secret. It's in the HAND!

    • @MatomeQuestMoremi
      @MatomeQuestMoremi Před 7 lety +12

      NicksDomain101 Yup. Excellent but awkward.

    • @Bemmu
      @Bemmu Před 7 lety +43

      Thanks, I spilled my drink laughing at your comment.

    • @user-bv6bi2sz8r
      @user-bv6bi2sz8r Před 7 lety +50

      This music makes me feel like I am some Mathematicians thinking hard of a very tricky problem in 18th century.

  • @rmsvideos1335
    @rmsvideos1335 Před 7 lety +1863

    Came for cross product, left with existential crisis.

  • @SirBagelFace
    @SirBagelFace Před 4 lety +37

    This video has such an ominous energy and I was not prepared for it.

  • @ProGaming-kb9io
    @ProGaming-kb9io Před 5 lety +448

    The music is like: Harry Potter and the Vectors calculations chamber.

  • @danieljoseph2647
    @danieljoseph2647 Před 7 lety +357

    the ending song was perfect

  • @marco_robert
    @marco_robert Před 3 lety +91

    1) A very clear and understandable diagram
    2) Great way of animation.
    3) Awesome way of teaching.
    4) A good mound of effort
    5) Subtitles in all languages..
    And much more!!!
    I can't just thank you enough. Thanks to help and guide...

  • @LuRybz
    @LuRybz Před 8 lety +319

    extra:
    if the result of the cross product is 0 (null vector), you have two parallel vectors
    if the result of the dot product is 0, then you have two perpendicular vectors
    God Bless you all.

  • @ccd7339
    @ccd7339 Před 6 lety +170

    the song perfectly matched the topic=terrifying

  • @wurttmapper2200
    @wurttmapper2200 Před 7 lety +42

    If you are wondering, the name of the song at the end is called William Tell Overture by Rossini. Please listen up the long one and not just the finale

  • @belliumm
    @belliumm Před 8 lety +55

    Eugene, I don't think you'd ever expect to hear someone say this, but your videos have helped me fight depressive thoughts and anxiety. I was once caught in an deterministic perspective on the world and lived a life thinking my existence had little impact. Then I stumbled upon your quantum mechanics video and it gave me so much hope and wonder. I realized still have so much more to learn about this reality and that our very existence impacts the world around us. Your videos explain sciencific concepts incredibly well and make them so interesting you have actually made me consider taking up a career in physics. Thank you, I appreciate your work greatly. You have impacted my life and brought out the inner child in me.

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +21

      +Aquas Studios, I am glad to hear that my videos have had such a profound influence on you. It is nice to know that my work is having a positive impact, and thanks for the feedback. To the best of our knowledge, according to quantum mechanics, it now appears that we do not live in a deterministic universe. I plan to soon have several more videos dealing with quantum mechanics, and I hope you will enjoy them too.

    • @allankaige7364
      @allankaige7364 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Hows it been going for you? Its been 7 years. I hope it's all gone very well.

    • @belliumm
      @belliumm Před 4 měsíci

      @@allankaige7364 It's been good, I went on to get my bachelor's of science in computer engineering. At the time I was a high schooler that was going through a little existential crisis.

    • @MDMAx
      @MDMAx Před 3 měsíci

      @@allankaige7364 +1, @belliumm, where has your curiosity taken you?

  • @elijahizere
    @elijahizere Před 8 lety +106

    The music was shocking, put some humorous light on this video. Loved it :P

  • @sy_ox
    @sy_ox Před 6 lety +46

    3:53 when you finally realize you are One with the force.

  • @kevinz11ca
    @kevinz11ca Před 8 lety +107

    the ending music is so epic!

  • @1mursyid1
    @1mursyid1 Před 6 lety +33

    that moment when this 4 minutes video taught me about vector better than my 1 hour physic lecture....

  • @cphVlwYa
    @cphVlwYa Před 7 lety +18

    It's the best thing when I am searching for an animation and find my way back to this channel :) They make everything so much easier to visualize and understand

  • @imme_fr
    @imme_fr Před 3 lety +3

    the most dramatic educational video on youtube.

  • @abhishekbhattacharjee4639
    @abhishekbhattacharjee4639 Před 7 lety +57

    i didn't expect such good use of music in a physics vid .....great job

  • @fazaldudha5728
    @fazaldudha5728 Před 7 lety +10

    Loved the graphics along with blasted music to make sure viewer is attentive. Speaker voice gets the vote too!

  • @flamestorm06
    @flamestorm06 Před 6 lety +3

    Thank you, I was having a lot of difficulty in understanding the right hand rule, that demonstrated it perfectly!

  • @missakissa987
    @missakissa987 Před 6 lety +1

    Hahahahhaha I cracked up so hard when the dramatic instrumental music came when revealing the cross product direction. Never thought such an informative thing would do that. Now I'll definitely replay that moment in my head during the exam.

  • @b43_pranjalvyas76
    @b43_pranjalvyas76 Před 4 lety

    This was so superb....at the end of the video I felt dots connecting in my brain and at the very same moment the music was playing in the background!!!

  • @mikkolodeon7053
    @mikkolodeon7053 Před 5 lety +48

    Still dont get the idea behind the Dot and Cross product.. I'll just memorized the formula, then solve the problem, get an A+, never asked why, and go on with my life..

    • @uathrhsalim
      @uathrhsalim Před 5 lety +16

      Every student ever .

    • @OneDerscoreOneder
      @OneDerscoreOneder Před 4 lety +5

      and then forget it a year or two later*

    • @cinquine1
      @cinquine1 Před 4 lety +12

      Me, until it became important. Then I had to go back and actually learn it :/

    • @ericklestrange6255
      @ericklestrange6255 Před 4 lety +3

      all hail youtube for actually explaining shit

    • @Dragoneer
      @Dragoneer Před 3 lety +2

      @@cinquine1 Same, I'm studying a degree in engineering and we're looking at the cross product between instantaneous angular velocity and perpendicular radius to find instantaneous linear velocity, and I have just realised are perpendicular to each other vectorially. So I guess I _do_ have to know about cross products after all! I was thinking to myself, "goddamit...."
      Although..I've now found out it makes the whole process sooo much easier to understand calculating this all _vectorially_ using numerical unit vectors rather than taking a geometrical approach using their magnitudes instead (lots of confusing lines and trigonometry :/ )...which is why nowadays I'm actually starting to appreciate cross products a lot more than I had done in the past. That's something I never thought I'd say cause I found them hellish to understand in further maths. But they're actually fairing out to be _extremely_ useful when finding perpendicular magnitudes that are in a three dimensional space with each other...such is the case with angular motion. You just have to know about this fact beforehand. All you have to do is arrange two perpendicular vectors in a matrix with their unit vectors above, and find the determinant of this, for a third vector that's perpendicular to both. After that I was wondering why tf I never did this in the past cause it was so straightforward compared to how I was doing it with trig...
      Saves time learning a bunch of different formulas when all you have to know is that (with unit vectors) : i = j *x* k ; j = k *x* i ; k = i *x* j ; and they are not commutative, so the reverse is the negative of those. Eureka moment for me XD (please tell me if I'm wrong about this :S )

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +84

    If you like this video, you can help more people find it in their CZcams search engine by clicking the like button, and writing a comment. Thanks.

    • @matthewburson2908
      @matthewburson2908 Před 6 lety +1

      I like that this was voiced over by an anime voice actress.

    • @Derick_286
      @Derick_286 Před 5 lety +2

      Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky use less

    • @Derick_286
      @Derick_286 Před 5 lety

      @@Higgs314 then what should i say?

    • @meenumeeny99
      @meenumeeny99 Před 5 lety +2

      BGM is so irritating

    • @sushilghildiyal9319
      @sushilghildiyal9319 Před 4 lety

      @@Higgs314 They have taught, dot product wrong, dont just believe all youtube videos

  • @tpespos
    @tpespos Před 8 lety

    Don't stop you keep blowing my mind with simple stuff I have been using cross products for years and never realized it was just the area between the vectors

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety

      +tpespos, glad you found this interesting. More videos are on their way.

  • @zEre326
    @zEre326 Před 3 lety

    I'm a very visual person and could not understand why we use dot and cross product!!! this video literally saved me thank you !!!!!

  • @Test-ri2kr
    @Test-ri2kr Před 3 lety +3

    This is a fantastic video! No waffle. Not too slow, not too quick. Just perfect. Thank you for these amazing videos. They help me visualise what the hell is going on underneath all those ridiculous maths problems I solve haha 😅

  • @samirkhosrowshahi7928
    @samirkhosrowshahi7928 Před 7 měsíci

    This is the absolute best video I've ever seen that defines the dot product. All of the conceptual stuff that other videos try to explain pales in comparison to the simplicity of this visualization.

  • @jhoan7189
    @jhoan7189 Před 4 lety

    perfect illustration of complex vector subjects. thank you!

  • @SteichenFamily
    @SteichenFamily Před 8 lety +38

    Your other videos have been very explanatory. I like that they assume a novice viewer. Unfortunately I'm not following this one. It might help if you could detail some applications...like the time/speed/distance application in your calculus video, that made it clear how such a thing is used.

  • @etherealbae2160
    @etherealbae2160 Před 4 lety +3

    This was.. memorable. Thank you!

  • @cloudyclo
    @cloudyclo Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you so much!!! I've been struggling to visualize the dot product and cross product for the longesttt time. This animation helped me so much! As well as the circuit video I saw the other day!

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 6 lety +2

      Thanks. I am glad my videos are helpful.

    • @cloudyclo
      @cloudyclo Před 6 lety

      You know, in high school I've always dreamed about how great it'd be if there were people knowledgeable about physics who could also animate complex topics they were discussing because there are some things that are hard to visualize. Can you imagine how cool a physics and animation major would be? :) There's also a lack of animated physics videos, but here you are animating physics videos very well and fulfilling one of my dreams! :D I'm very proud of you and the work that you do, and I'm forever grateful. I wish you the best in your endeavors. :)

  • @TheRabidCabbage
    @TheRabidCabbage Před 5 lety

    I watched a bunch of videos on this subject and this was the first that made sense.

  • @StevenKarma
    @StevenKarma Před 8 lety +1

    Your explanations are always very clear. Please continue making videos!

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety

      +Steven Karma, thanks for the compliment. More videos are on the way.

  • @angeldavidstarrmauas8322

    Amazing! Finally I get to understand this! The single best explanation I could even fathom!
    Just awesome! Thanks so much!

  • @BrunoSdeLima
    @BrunoSdeLima Před 6 lety

    Fantastic. These tools are priceless for students!

  • @ashutoshpatel5030
    @ashutoshpatel5030 Před 6 lety

    sir you provide absolutely concept that others do not....it awesome....I loved it

  • @AlmightyXI
    @AlmightyXI Před 3 lety

    Wow I hadn't seen this link between particle handedness before now. Glad I found your channel

  • @_AnmolGupta
    @_AnmolGupta Před 3 lety

    From the last 3 years I am studying about DOT and CROSS product but I today visualize it.. That's very nice and useful video... Thanks alot...

  • @shipwreck9146
    @shipwreck9146 Před 4 lety +1

    I have been doing dot products for years now, no professors have ever explained it this well, and I think visually, so because no professors explained it, in my head I always said it was "how much the vectors are of each other." But this video helped me understand so much more.

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 4 lety +1

      Thanks for the compliment about my explanation. I am glad it was helpful.

  • @flare909
    @flare909 Před 8 lety

    I've been waiting for this video forever!!!!!! Thank you!!!!

  • @fakherhalim
    @fakherhalim Před 8 lety

    This is the best illustration humanly possible!

  • @savemey2jnavi
    @savemey2jnavi Před 3 lety

    Man, nice music selection like Rossini's William Tell Overture with a beautiful animation for a math explanation. You got an inmediate new suscriber in myself!

  • @smitititecnosoft
    @smitititecnosoft Před 4 lety

    I started understanding the behavior of universe by the concept of your videos.. thanks.

  • @Feynstein100
    @Feynstein100 Před 8 lety

    Great explanation, Eugene. Can't wait for your next video.

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +1

      +Feynstein100, thanks. Glad you liked it. I am working on my next video, which will be on Quantum Wave function visualization.

  • @MunchyMallow
    @MunchyMallow Před 5 lety

    The dot product visualization exploded my brain. I never knew it was this simple.

  • @TDBRICKS
    @TDBRICKS Před 2 lety +33

    Super helpful. Thank you!

  • @MAG_104
    @MAG_104 Před rokem

    This might be one of the most terrifying videos I have ever seen. When the music climaxes at the hand my heart dropped into my gut.

  • @The_MatEngineer
    @The_MatEngineer Před 7 lety +1

    when considering the second arrow (segment on dot product) the length of that side of the triangle is simply the x component of the the second arrow vector.

  • @sethconnell3497
    @sethconnell3497 Před 8 lety +1

    I just found your channel today. I think I'm going to be a lifetime subscriber. :]

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +1

      +Seth Connell, I am glad you found my channel, and I am happy to have you as a lifetime subscriber. Thanks.

  • @shafiqreshid4288
    @shafiqreshid4288 Před 2 lety

    Underrated video with an OG climax

  • @lightoftheFather_
    @lightoftheFather_ Před 2 lety

    This is the best explanation on CZcams!

  • @KushG420
    @KushG420 Před 2 lety

    aren't you a blessing.
    Humbly grateful madame Eugene

  • @jvillalobos6988
    @jvillalobos6988 Před 6 lety

    that final hand move was epic!

  • @Muuip
    @Muuip Před 4 lety

    Great visualization! Much appreciated!

  • @nandikakaul6979
    @nandikakaul6979 Před 4 lety

    Wow. This was so helpful! Thank you

  • @leyre9989
    @leyre9989 Před 7 lety

    Thanks so muuuuuch!! I already understood the dot product but i couldn't visualise the cross product so this has been soo useful :)

  • @madch3mist
    @madch3mist Před 6 lety

    Nice animation and succinct differentiation between the scalar and cross products.

  • @ollllj
    @ollllj Před 8 lety +3

    this may be trivial to many, but to me, who only needs to remember crossproduct and dotproduct basics every 5 years or so, not doing vectors in that much detail usually using a blackbos, its easy to get your memories confused without such good visualization.

  • @thestarinthesky_
    @thestarinthesky_ Před 3 lety

    The best explanation i have ever seen!

  • @Pri-tf9iv
    @Pri-tf9iv Před 8 lety

    this video was soo needed!!
    thank you sooo much!

  • @seanwiesen7418
    @seanwiesen7418 Před 8 lety

    Thanks Eugene. This is a very good explanation.

  • @jiaqihuang7762
    @jiaqihuang7762 Před 15 dny

    Thank you for this video! That makes so much sense!

  • @jocomo5054
    @jocomo5054 Před 2 lety +1

    I just searched for a demonstration
    Thank God this video recommended for me

  • @dougvitagliano7512
    @dougvitagliano7512 Před 8 lety

    These videos are awesome! Thanks

  • @balajid1157
    @balajid1157 Před 6 lety

    Superb presentation and explained in a simple manner.

  • @ryanw.4983
    @ryanw.4983 Před 4 lety

    This really helped my understand this concept! Thank you!

  • @EvansBusuru
    @EvansBusuru Před 6 lety

    Concise and thorough explanation. Thakns

  • @chhavigupta2802
    @chhavigupta2802 Před 7 lety +17

    so good thanks a lot...wished I knew about ur videos earlier. I wouldn't have faced any problem then...

  • @aadityaaggarwal24
    @aadityaaggarwal24 Před 4 lety

    This 4 min clip is what i wanted when i was in school. Things would have been so easier to understand. Great that kids have access to this these days.

  • @Shizuko-Zen
    @Shizuko-Zen Před 3 lety

    That intensifying music in the end really got me. LMAO.

  • @ibrightupsmarteducationapp2601

    Thank you. great job. this could help my students.

  • @elonmuskofficial1222
    @elonmuskofficial1222 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for using the captions
    Really helped me
    Because I'm not good at English

  • @akashm9052
    @akashm9052 Před 6 lety

    amazing video , amazing work 👌 keep it up👍

  • @Leo-sh1ih
    @Leo-sh1ih Před 8 lety +1

    As a visual learner, thank you for this awesome visual explanation!

  • @W.Q.Neves-2023
    @W.Q.Neves-2023 Před 8 lety +1

    Parabéns muito bom material.
    Brazil.

  • @rgokulram9925
    @rgokulram9925 Před 6 lety

    You videos were awesome like unfolding mathematics in to a movie , it makes looking outside world in terms of math . I thank you so much for your videos ,love from india

  • @abhishekcherath2323
    @abhishekcherath2323 Před 7 lety +3

    Great work. Thank You.

  • @ilijamajcen5426
    @ilijamajcen5426 Před 11 měsíci

    exactly what I need in only 4 minutes. thanks

  • @elaine3867
    @elaine3867 Před 2 lety

    Thank you so much. It really helped my understanding on the topic

  • @Anna-qp1fi
    @Anna-qp1fi Před 2 lety

    Excellent explanation, thank you!

  • @poisenbery
    @poisenbery Před rokem

    these videos are amazing

  • @hairyfiddler2274
    @hairyfiddler2274 Před 3 lety

    That helped a lot thanks 🙏🏼

  • @parjohansson3118
    @parjohansson3118 Před 8 lety +11

    Another beautiful visualization! These videos should be used in college as well as in universities!!
    And, for totally unknown reasons, I would like to see a behind-the-scenes. Making videos like this must be a daunting task.

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +1

      +Pär Johansson, thanks for the compliment. I would have to think about how to do a behind the scenes video. Thanks again.

  • @EigenA
    @EigenA Před 2 lety

    Jeez that music on the RHR got me pumped to go into 16th-century battle

  • @fightforfitness2256
    @fightforfitness2256 Před 6 lety

    Thanks for your effort .

  • @IamArob0t
    @IamArob0t Před 6 lety

    that plot twist music at the end was perfect

  • @malidas4718
    @malidas4718 Před 4 lety

    Its simply great!

  • @amritpatra6857
    @amritpatra6857 Před 3 lety +1

    Wonderful video recommended by my physics teacher pure gold

  • @himanshu4282
    @himanshu4282 Před 4 lety

    Ur method of understanding concept is best

  • @egzn5874
    @egzn5874 Před 6 lety

    Love the song at the end

  • @oli32xx
    @oli32xx Před 4 lety

    This was super useful, thanks!!!

  • @basitsultan2854
    @basitsultan2854 Před 4 lety

    Superb 💖 touched my heart.thankyou so much.keep it up 💐

  • @intuitivepariacademy
    @intuitivepariacademy Před 7 lety +2

    can you please help me..? actually I want to make a model with the dot and cross product idea. please help me.

  • @gopalsinghchauhan3523
    @gopalsinghchauhan3523 Před 4 lety +1

    Very helpful for me and others so pls make more and more video on other topics

  • @alisha1422
    @alisha1422 Před 5 lety +1

    What a music .... Really nice

  • @busraa_
    @busraa_ Před 7 měsíci

    No one told me these logical expressions in school... Thank you.

  • @bloggervista
    @bloggervista Před 8 lety +7

    When i heard the title of video i remembered the video about electromagnetism and gyroscope i guess :)
    Thanks eugene . Without you i would have stuck in physics very badly :)

    • @EugeneKhutoryansky
      @EugeneKhutoryansky  Před 8 lety +3

      +Shirshak Bajgain, glad to hear that my videos have been helpful. Thanks.

  • @mibrahim4245
    @mibrahim4245 Před 4 lety

    ok the question I always ask, what came first ? the cross and dot products or the physical phenomena that we needed to use these products for?
    for example, the work = force * distance ... did we need to come up with the dot product to describe this phenomenon (that the work should be scalar, and it cares about the force component thats only towards the motion vector) , OR, we already have the dot and cross products and we used the dot here because it applies ??
    I HOPE I GET AN ANSWER ....

  • @1schwererziehbar1
    @1schwererziehbar1 Před 6 lety +1

    This is the good stuff. The right stuff.