dot product

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

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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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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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