dot product

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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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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 calculation involves forming vectors along the directions of the lines and using both the cross product and the 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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The fourth property shows the relationship between the magnitude of a vector and its dot product with itself:

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