inner product

…scalar product, or sometimes the inner product) is an operation that combines two vectors to form a scalar. The operation is written A · B. If θ is the (smaller) angle between A and B, then the result of the operation is A · B = AB cos θ. The…

…closely related notion, called an inner product, written 〈x, y〉, where x, y are vectors. It is equal to x₁y₁ +⋯+ x_ny_n. The inner product relates not just to the sizes of x and y but to the angle between them. For example, 〈x, y〉 = 0 if and only…

…vectors together is called a dot product, or sometimes a scalar product because it results in a scalar. The dot product is given by v ∙ w = vw cos θ, where θ is the smaller angle between the vectors. The dot product is used to find the angle between…

…Vδl·cos θ is called the scalar product of the two vectors V and δl and is written as V·δl. The sum of all similar contributions from the different δl gives, in the limit when the elements are made infinitesimally small, the line integral V ·dl along