Lec 3 | 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999

Vectors - Dot Products - Cross Products - 3D Kinematics

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[stewitr]

His dotted lines are amazing.

[purplebluebirds]

"I have an apple-

not an apple...

This is a tomato-

not a tomato

It's a potato!"

[iv54]

this is really cool im watchin this along with my college physics class tohelp ensure i defff getan a. i learned most of thisstuff in high school though. but im an engineerong major and im getting a free MIT education :)

[TheLoneDevil]

@leeyihlun19940520 - Yes, where your four fingers represent the rotation of vector "A", your thumb is the cross-product vector.

[taimoor722]

@leeyihlun19940520 yes



[ollobrains1]

171k visitors

[stavrospod]

really great..and the last 4 minutes were the best..

[howincrediblyshit]

Cool, with these videos i can finally get a REAL education. It is almost like stealing.

[redrum41987]

169,000 viewer!

[saraniu009]

the cross product |a||b|sin(theta) must be larger than zero.