By D. Hestenes
(revised) it is a textbook on classical mechanics on the intermediate point, yet its major function is to function an creation to a brand new mathematical language for physics referred to as geometric algebra. Mechanics is most typically formulated at the present time by way of the vector algebra constructed by way of the yank physicist J. Willard Gibbs, yet for a few purposes of mechanics the algebra of advanced numbers is extra effective than vector algebra, whereas in different purposes matrix algebra works larger. Geometric algebra integrates these types of algebraic platforms right into a coherent mathematical language which not just keeps some great benefits of every one designated algebra yet possesses strong new functions. This e-book covers the particularly commonplace fabric for a direction at the mechanics of debris and inflexible our bodies. despite the fact that, it will likely be visible that geometric algebra brings new insights into the therapy of approximately each subject and produces simplifications that movement the topic speedy to complex degrees. That has made it attainable during this ebook to hold the remedy of 2 significant subject matters in mechanics way past the extent of alternative textbooks. a couple of phrases are so as concerning the distinct remedy of those issues, particularly, rotational dynamics and celestial mechanics.
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8) involving the angle A. Similarly, an equation involving angle B can be obtained. In this way one gets three equations relating the scalars a, b, c, A, B, C. These equations show that given the magnitude of three sides, or of two sides and the angle between, the remaining three scalars can be computed. This result may be recognized as encompassing several theorems of geometry. The point to be made here is that these results of geometry and trigonometry need not be remembered as theorems, since they can be obtained so easily by the “algebra” of scalars and vectors.
It is the nature of this relation that distinguishes line from plane. A single vector completely characterizes the directional relation of points in a given line. A single bivector completely characterizes the directional relation of points in a given plane. In other words, a bivector does not describe a set of points in a plane, rather it describes the directional property of such a set, which, so to speak, specifies the plane the points are “in”. Thus, the notion of a plane as a relation can be separated from the notion of a plane as a point set.
The Outer Product The algebra of scalars and vectors based on the rules just mentioned has been so widely accepted as to be routinely employed by mathematicians and physicists today. As it stands, however, this algebra is still incapable of providing a full expression of geometrical ideas. Yet there is nothing close to a consensus on how to overcome this limitation. Rather there is a great proliferation of different mathematical systems designed to express geometrical ideas – tensor algebra, matrix algebra, spinor algebra – to name just a few of the most common.