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Im going to let someone give a better response for some of these, but i will touch on a few.

2) The dot product can be thought of the projection of one vector onto another, or: If i shine a light directly at one vector with the 2nd vector in between, how long will the shadow of the 2nd vector in the system be? Do an image search for dot product to see this, and it will become clear (if you know basic trig) why the equation is ABcos(theta).

The cross product is defined as having a magnitude equal to the area of the parallelogram that the vectors create. So have both vectors start at the same point, and then mirror them to make a parallelogram (see wiki on parallelogram).

4) How are the different? If you take 1-0.9999.... = x, what is x exactly? You can't tell me the difference. This is essentially how limits work.



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