University Calculus: Early Transcendentals (3rd Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321999584
ISBN 13: 978-0-32199-958-0

Chapter 11 - Questions to Guide Your Review - Page 637: 5

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The two vectors in component form can be expressed as: $u =\lt u_{1}, u_{2}, u_{3}\gt $ and $v =\lt v_{1}, v_{2}, v_{3}\gt $ Their scalar product can defined as: $u \cdot v=u_xv_x+u_yv_y+u_zv_z$ The algebraic laws for the dot product are described as below: a) The null vector $u \cdot 0=0$ b) The dot product of two vectors will be zero when both vectors are perpendicular to each other. c) The dot product of two vectors obeys the distributive property $u\cdot (v+w)=u \cdot v +u \cdot w$ d) The dot product of two vectors obeys the commutative property $u\cdot v=v \cdot u$
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