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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Going back to the fruit vendor, let’s think about the dot product, q · p.
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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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Direction angles are often calculated by using the dot product and the cosines of the angles, called the direction cosines.
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In this section, we develop an operation called the dot product, which allows us to calculate work in the case when the force vector and the motion vector have different directions.
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