What happens when I multiply a vector by itself?

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Aritra G.
May 30, 2015

There are two kinds of products with vectors, the scalar product and the vector product.

Let us have a vector A.
Then A. A = A^2, where A is the magnitude of A.

In the case of a cross product,
A X A = 0, since, the angle the vector makes with itself is 0 and Sin 0 = 0.

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