dot product

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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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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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Therefore, the tangent vector and the force vector have a positive dot product all along C1, and the line integral will have positive value.

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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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