What is the value of (AxB)2 + (AB)2 ?

Please interpret this as the sum of the squares of the cross product and dot product of two vectors A and B.
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1 Answer
Nov 29, 2016

|A|2|B|2

Explanation:

|A×B|=|A||B|sinϕ
|AB|=|A||B|cosϕ

here ϕ is the angle between A and B at common tails.

then

|A×B|2+|AB|2=|A|2|B|2(sin2ϕ+cosϕ)=|A|2|B|2