Practicing Success
For non-coplanar vectors $\vec a,\vec b$ and $\vec c$, the relation $|(\vec a×\vec b). \vec c|=|\vec a||\vec b||\vec c|$ holds iff |
$\vec a.\vec b=\vec b.\vec c=\vec c.\vec a=0$ $\vec a.\vec b=0=\vec b.\vec c$ $\vec a. \vec b =0= \vec c.\vec a$ $\vec b. \vec c=0=\vec c.\vec a$ |
$\vec a.\vec b=\vec b.\vec c=\vec c.\vec a=0$ |
We have, $|(\vec a×\vec b). \vec c|=|\vec a||\vec b||\vec c|$ ⇔ Volume of the parallelopiped having $\vec a,\vec b$ and $\vec c$ as three coterminus edges is equal to $|\vec a||\vec b||\vec c|$ $⇔\vec a,\vec b,\vec c$ are along mutually perpendicular edges $⇔\vec a.\vec b=\vec b.\vec c=\vec c.\vec a=0$ |