Dot Product

★★☆☆☆Middle School

📖Definition

The sum of products of corresponding components, resulting in a scalar. Used to find angles between vectors.

📐Formulas

\vecu · \vecv = u₁v₁ + u₂v₂ + ... + uₙvₙ

Dot product definition (component)

\vecu · \vecv = |\vecu||\vecv|cosθ

Geometric definition

cosθ = \frac\vecu · \vecv|\vecu||\vecv|

Angle between vectors

✏️Examples

예제 1★★☆☆☆

Find the dot product of u = (1, 2, 3) and v = (4, 5, 6).

예제 2★★☆☆☆

Find the angle between u = (1, 0) and v = (0, 1).

Applications

Physics

Work = Force · Displacement

Machine Learning

Cosine similarity

Computer Graphics

Lighting calculations

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