dot product

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The fourth property shows the relationship between the magnitude of a vector and its dot product with itself:

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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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The most common application of the dot product of two vectors is in the calculation of work.

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As you might expect, to calculate the dot product of four-dimensional vectors, we simply add the products of the components as before, but the sum has four terms instead of three.

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

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