How to Find Dot Product of Two Vectors | CBSE 12TH Maths Notes

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The scalar product of two vectors is known as the dot product of two vectors.

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There are two methods to find the dot product of two vectors:

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Dot Product Geometry is the dot product of two non-zero vectors denoted by a.b and is calculated using the formula:

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According to the Dot Product Algebra, the dot product of the two products

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To understand dot product geometry

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To explain dot product algebra, let us consider two vectors [6, 2, -1] and [5, -8, 2] as an example.

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