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 dot product can also help us measure the angle formed by a pair of vectors and the position of a vector relative to the coordinate axes.

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

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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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