MDCAT Physics MCQ #3670

A researcher uses two vectors representing the sides of a crystal face. What represents the area of this face?

MDCAT Physics MCQ #3670

  1. Question 1

    Q1. A researcher uses two vectors representing the sides of a crystal face. What represents the area of this face?

    • A) Dot product
    • B) Scalar product
    • C) Magnitude of cross product
    • D) Half of cross product

    Answer: Magnitude of cross product

    Explanation: The magnitude of the cross product |A x B| equals the area of the parallelogram. Option D refers to a triangle.