dot product

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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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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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For this reason, the dot product is often called the scalar product.

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

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