Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
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Author: Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
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Chapter 7, Problem 5P
To determine
To Show: That
Introduction: The dot production of two vectors is a scalar quantity. It may be positive or a negative number.
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