Triple Product Expansion
This is a very useful identity (also known as Lagrange's formula) involving the dot- and cross-products. It is written as:
which is easier to remember as "BAC minus CAB", keeping in mind which vectors are dotted together. This formula is commonly used to simplify vector calculations in physics.
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