Recall that given vectors a and b in space the dot product is defined as.
Mat lab dot product of two vectors.
Dot product in this activity you will utilize matlab to evaluate the dot product of two vectors in two different ways using the dot command and using matrix multiplication.
The scalar dot product of two real vectors of length n is equal to u v i 1 n u i v i u 1 v 1 u 2 v 2.
U n v n.
The dot product block generates the dot product of the input vectors.
If the dot product is equal to zero then u and v are perpendicular.
B a b cos theta we will use this formula later to find the angle theta.
This relation is commutative for real vectors such that dot u v equals dot v u.
In matlab the appropriate built in function to determine the inner product is dot u v.
We can conclude that if the inner product of two vectors is zero the vectors are orthogonal.
A vector is an ordered n tuple which may be represented as a matrix in the form of a column vector nxi matrix or a row vector 1x matrix.
For example let s say that we have vectors u and v where u 1 0 and v 2 2.