dot product

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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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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.

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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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The dot product essentially tells us how much of the force vector is applied in the direction of the motion vector.

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The calculation involves forming vectors along the directions of the lines and using both the cross product and the dot product.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016