Stupid Question About Finding the Angle of a Vector

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:smile: Okay then!

Let's say we are ONLY working in the 1st Quadrant of the x-y plane. I have some vector in that region that makes some angle with the +x axis. I then rotate that vector through some angle.

The initial points of the vector before and after are coincident, i.e. I only move the terminal end to some new point while maintaining the vectors magnitude.

I know the initial point, I know the terminal points of both the original and new vector.

I now need the angle that I must have rotated through to get to the new point.

Is this a dot product problem?
 
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:smile: Alrighty-then!