Dot Product and Generalisation
In the Euclidean plane, the angle θ between two vectors u and v is related to their dot product and their lengths by the formula
This formula supplies an easy method to find the angle between two planes (or curved surfaces) from their normal vectors and between skew lines from their vector equations.
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