Hello. I'm new to Maxima, and I'm hoping to use it for vector algebra
derivations, but I'm having trouble simplifying formulas with both dot
and cross products. For example:
(%i1) load("vect") $
(%i2) declare([p,q], nonscalar) $
(%i3) ev(vectorsimp(p . (p~q)), expandall);
(%o3) p . p~q
This should simplify to zero since the cross product p~q is
perpendicular to p and q. What am I missing here?
Thanks,
Nathan Reed