dot product
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The first type of vector multiplication is called the dot product, based on the notation we use for it, and it is defined as follows:
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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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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.
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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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