Possible error with dot product
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There appears to be an issue with the dot function which computes the dot product between 2 vectors. Either that, or I am using it incorrectly.
xa = -4.2162; % x-component of vector a
ya = -7.1335;% y-component of vector a
xb = -1.4941e-08; % x-component of vector b
yb = 1.7922e-08; % y-component of vector b
% dot product = a_i*b_i + a_j*b_j =|a|*|b|*cos(theta)
%% Get values for above formulae
dotprod1 = xa * xb + ya * yb
theta = rad2deg(acos((xa*xb+ya*yb)/(sqrt(xa^2+ya^2)*sqrt(xb^2+yb^2))));
dotprod2 = sqrt(xa^2+ya^2)*sqrt(xb^2+yb^2) * cos(deg2rad(theta))
dotprod1 == dotprod2 % Should give 1
%% Using the dot function
% a = a_i + a_j
% b = b_i + b_j
dotprod3 = dot(xa+ya,xb+yb) % dot of full vectors a and b
dotprod1 == dotprod3
Why isn't dot producing the same value?
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Geoff Hayes
on 22 Sep 2021
William - from dot, this function returns the scalar dot product of the two input vectors. So in your case, the
dot(xa+ya,xb+yb)
is equivalent to
(xa + ya) * (xb + yb)
which is not the same as what you calculated previously as
dotprod1 = (xa * xb) + (ya * yb) % I added the brackets
Note also that your code and comment
dotprod1 == dotprod2 % Should give 1
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