The dot product of two vectors \(\mathbf{A}\) and \(\mathbf{B}\) (written \(\mathbf{A} \cdot \mathbf{B}\), and pronounced "A dot \(\mathbf{B}\) ") is defined to be the product of their magnitudes, tim...The dot product of two vectors \(\mathbf{A}\) and \(\mathbf{B}\) (written \(\mathbf{A} \cdot \mathbf{B}\), and pronounced "A dot \(\mathbf{B}\) ") is defined to be the product of their magnitudes, times the cosine of the angle between them: It turns out that this combination occurs frequently in physics; the dot product is related to the projection of one vector onto the the other.
