SOLUTION: The dot product yields a vector, rather than a scalar. True or False ?

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Question 1110363: The dot product yields a vector, rather than a scalar.
True or False ?
Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source):
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False.

On dot product, learn from these lessons
    - Introduction to dot-product
    - Formula for Dot-product of vectors in a plane via the vectors components
    - Dot-product of vectors in a coordinate plane and the angle between two vectors
    - Perpendicular vectors in a coordinate plane
    - Solved problems on Dot-product of vectors and the angle between two vectors
    - Properties of Dot-product of vectors in a coordinate plane
    - The formula for the angle between two vectors and the formula for cosines of the difference of two angles

There are short lessons of the "HOW TO . . . " type on Dot-product:
    - HOW TO find dot-product of two vectors in a plane
    - HOW TO find scalar product of two vectors in a coordinate plane
    - HOW TO find the angle between two vectors in a coordinate plane
    - HOW TO prove that two vectors in a coordinate plane are perpendicular
    - HOW TO prove that a triangle in a coordinate plane is a right triangle
    - HOW TO check if a quadrilateral in a coordinate plane is a parallelogram
    - HOW TO check if a quadrilateral in a coordinate plane is a rectangle
    - HOW TO check if a quadrilateral in a coordinate plane is a rhombus
    - HOW TO check if a quadrilateral in a coordinate plane is a square