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

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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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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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