dot product

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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 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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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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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.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016