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Component Vectors

  1. Mar 14, 2010 #1

    Ali Asadullah

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    How can we find component vectors along non-perpendicular lines/axis? Please illustrate with example.
     
    Ali Asadullah, Mar 14, 2010
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  3. Mar 14, 2010 #2

    CompuChip

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    In the same way as you would with perpendicular axes.
    The inner product just projects one vector onto some axis (i.e. another vector), it doesn't depend on separate axes to be perpendicular.
     
    CompuChip, Mar 14, 2010
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