Tangential Velocity as a Cross Product
Referring again to Fig.B.4, we can write the
tangential velocity vector
as a vector cross product of
the angular-velocity vector
(§B.4.11) and the position
vector
:
To see this, let's first check its direction and then its magnitude. By the right-hand rule,








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