dot product

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In this section, we develop an operation called the dot product, which allows us to calculate work in the case when the force vector and the motion vector have different directions.

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Using the dot product, find the projection of vector v12 found in step 4 onto unit vector n found in step 3.

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AAA sales for the month of May can be calculated using the dot product p · q.

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When two vectors are combined using the dot product, the result is a scalar.

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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.

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