Video: Fossil: Definition, Types, Characteristics & Examples. Fossils provide scientists with many clues about Earth's history, offering evidence of dinosaurs and strange plants that existed in the past. This lesson will define a fossil, look at different types and characteristics of fossils, and then describe how fossils are formed.
The final result of the dot product process can be: 1  Zero: we don't have any growth in the original direction. 2  Positive number: we have some growth in the original direction. 3  Negative number: we have negative (reverse) growth in the original direction.
In mathematics, the dot product or scalar product (sometimes inner product in the context of Euclidean space, or rarely projection product for emphasizing the geometric significance), is an algebraic operation that takes two equal-length sequences of numbers (usually coordinate vectors) and returns a single number.