dot product
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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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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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When two vectors are combined using the dot product, the result is a scalar.
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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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This property is a result of the fact that we can express the dot product in terms of the cosine of the angle formed by two vectors.
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