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Properties of the Dot Product

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These properties let us compute easily that, for a general vector that is written in component form the dot product can be calculated as

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(For a complete proof, see any of the references cited.) As a quick example,

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Vector Calculus
Mon Jul 14 10:10:30 MST 1997