dot product
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Going back to the fruit vendor, let’s think about the dot product, q · p.
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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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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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When two vectors are combined using the dot product, the result is a scalar.
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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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