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Geometric Algebra in 3D - The Vector-Bivector Product (Part 1)

Mathoma 21,495 8 years ago
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After having set up G(3), let's now investigate a particular geometric product, namely, the product between vector and bivector. We'll see that such a product in general splits into a vector part and the trivector part. Similar to the geometric product between vectors, we'll call the lower-graded vector part the dot product between vector and bivector and we'll call the higher-graded trivector part the wedge product. In this video, we'll motivate these definitions and save the algebraic exploration and geometric meaning for the second part. References / Further Reading: 1. Lasenby and Doran's "Geometric Algebra for Physicists". 2. Recommended video on Clifford algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqadK8-dN-Y 3. And other video series covering Geometric Algebra (Nick Okamoto): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-IKemH3jsg&list=PLQ6JJNfj9jD_H3kUopCXkvvGoZqzYOzsV

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