Dot Product and Orthogonal
Dot product…? Does anyone here know the definition of work? Is it the same as me saying I am standing here working hard? To understand what is involved in real work, we turn to a new vector operation called the dot product. The dot product of two vectors result in a scalar (a real number) This is different from the other 2 vector operations you learned (vector addition and scalar multiplication) which their results were vectors.
Dot product
Examples
Deriving an alternate Dot Product Formula (based on the angle between the vectors) u w v
Example:
Parallel Vectors
Orthogonal
The Zero Vector
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