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The 31 pages that link to Cross product, each with the reason it gives.

• Angular momentumBroader topic: The position–momentum cross product defines angular momentum for a point particle.

• TorqueRelated: The cross product of position and force encodes torque’s magnitude and axis direction.

• DeterminantCompared with: Its components can be expressed as signed 2-by-2 determinants.

• Lorentz forceNarrower topic: The magnetic term’s direction and magnitude follow from this operation.

• VectorBroader topic: It turns two directions into an oriented normal, useful for areas and torque.

• Dot productCompared with: Unlike the scalar dot product, it returns a vector encoding oriented area.

• Homogeneous coordinatesRelated: In projective-plane calculations, it finds the line through two points or the intersection of two lines.

• MultiplicationCompared with: It is called a product but differs from ordinary multiplication in its vector output and orientation.

• Vector additionCompared with: It is a distinct vector operation with different geometric and algebraic rules.

• Coriolis forceRelated: The force direction is encoded by a cross product of rotation and velocity.

• Orbital angular momentumRelated: It determines orbital angular momentum's direction and classical magnitude.

• Axis of rotationRelated: It expresses the perpendicular direction used to represent angular velocity and torque.

• Biot–Savart lawRelated: It makes each field contribution perpendicular to both the current element and the displacement to the observation point.

• Triangle areaRelated: Half the cross-product magnitude gives the area of a triangle formed by two vectors.

• CurlRelated: Curl’s Cartesian formula combines spatial derivatives through cross products.

• Conservation of angular momentumRelated: The angular momentum of a particle is defined by the cross product of position and momentum.

• Scalar multiplicationCompared with: It combines two vectors rather than scaling one by a scalar.

• Lie bracketRelated: In three dimensions, the cross product is an example of a Lie bracket.

• Convex polygonRelated: In the plane, signed cross products reveal whether consecutive turns keep one orientation.

• Surface normalRelated: Crossing two independent tangent directions produces a surface normal.

• Poynting vectorNarrower topic: It explains why energy flow is perpendicular to both electromagnetic fields.

• Vector (physics)Related: It produces axial quantities such as torque from pairs of vectors.

• Vector geometryRelated: It gives a direction normal to a plane and measures its spanned area.

• Skew linesRelated: Its magnitude and direction help calculate the shortest distance between skew lines.

• Product (mathematics)Broader topic: Its components are built from differences of products of vector coordinates.

• CoplanarityRelated: Two nonparallel displacement vectors define a normal that can test a third point's position.

• Line–line intersectionRelated: Direction vectors and their cross product help test parallelism and solve spatial line intersections.

• Pappus's hexagon theoremRelated: In homogeneous coordinates, it can compute the intersection of two projective lines.

• Vector notationRelated: Its component formula shows how coordinate notation encodes orientation.

• De Gua's theoremRelated: Cross-product magnitudes express the areas of the tetrahedron's triangular faces.

• Eilenberg–Zilber theoremRelated: The shuffle map induces the homological cross product.