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Force at an Angle to Displacement
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Angle
Recall that both the force and direction of motion are vectors. When the angle is 90 degrees, the cosine term goes to zero. When along the same direction, they equal one.
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"Sunil Kumar Singh, Scalar (Dot) Product. January 3, 2013."
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