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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can someone describe what projections (on vectors) is? Like describe it geometrically?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Sorry, my computer blinked out, but I answered back at your old question as you were forming this new question.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What the diagram in the other question is, is a scalar projection and is most likely the one your teacher is interested in at this point.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

|dw:1354066211268:dw|This is when you take the end of the one vector and draw a perpendicular segment to the other vector. The area from the vertex to the intersection is the projection.

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