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MIT Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus
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Lecture 4: The Dot Product
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Video Description: Herb Gross motivates the definition of the dot product: Work = Force x Distance. He also shows how to calculate the dot product of two vectors in 3-space. Other topics include projections, directional cosines, and the arithmetic structure of the dot product.
Instructor/speaker: Prof. Herbert Gross