dot product

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The calculation involves forming vectors along the directions of the lines and using both the cross product and the dot product.

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So, in this example, the dot product tells us how much money the fruit vendor had in sales on that particular day.

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

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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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