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Dot product

Learning objectives

  • To illustrate the geometrical meaning of the dot product.

The dot product is automatically calculated.
It gives information on the relative orientation of the vectors A and B. A negative dot product means that A and B point away from each other. a positive dot product means they point in the same direction. In case of orthogonality, the dot product is equal to zero.

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