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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Direction angles are often calculated by using the dot product and the cosines of the angles, called the direction cosines.
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Note that if u and v are two-dimensional vectors, we calculate the dot product in a similar fashion.
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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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