dot product

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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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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 dot product essentially tells us how much of the force vector is applied in the direction of the motion vector.

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The dot product allows us to do just that.

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Like vector addition and subtraction, the dot product has several algebraic properties.

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