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A parallelogram has Jordan content $∣ \det [v w] ∣$ , equal to base times height when $v \neq 0$

Statement

A parallelogram has Jordan content $∣ \det [v w] ∣$ , equal to base times height when $v \neq 0$ .

More precisely, $P (p; v, w)$ (Parallelograms and triangles in $R^{2}$ ) is Jordan measurable and

$cont (P (p; v, w)) = ∣ \det [v w] ∣,$

including the singular case. If $v \neq 0$ , this value is $∥ v ∥_{2} d (w, R v)$ in the convention of Base and perpendicular height for a chosen side of a plane figure.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A base point $p \in R^{2}$ and spanning vectors $v, w \in R^{2}$ .

[L1]

For column vectors $v_{1}, \dots, v_{n}$ , the closed parallelepiped is Jordan measurable with content equal to the absolute determinant; this includes the singular case, when the content is zero (The Jordan content of the parallelepiped spanned by the columns of a square real matrix is the absolute value of its determinant).

[L2]

For $v \neq 0$ , $∥ v ∥_{2} d (w, R v) = ∣ \det [v w] ∣$ ( $∥ v ∥_{2} d (w, R v) = ∣ \det [v w] ∣$ for $v \neq 0$ in $R^{2}$ ).

[L3]

Translation preserves Jordan measurability and content (Jordan inner content, outer content, measurability, and content are translation invariant).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1L1L3

Specialize [L1] to $n = 2$ and use [L3] to translate the origin-based parallelepiped by $p$ ; it gives Jordan measurability and $cont (P (p; v, w)) = ∣ \det [v w] ∣$ , including dependent or zero spanning vectors.

2.1step 1.1L2∎

When $v \neq 0$ , substitute [L2] into the determinant formula of step 1.1 to obtain content equal to base length times perpendicular height.

Depends on

Used by

The content of a parallelogram from a two-by-two matrix Example

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Sources

W. F. Trench, Introduction to Real Analysis, Theorem 7.3.7 (standard reference, not scraped)
M. E. Taylor, Introduction to Analysis in Several Variables, Proposition 3.1.10 (standard reference, not scraped)

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