Vector Analysis and Quaternions

Alexander Macfarlane, 1906. John Wiley & Sons, New York (Chapman & Hall, London), 1906; Mathematical Monographs No. 8, ed. Merriman and Woodward (first printed as a chapter of their Higher Mathematics)

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Chapters

Introduction 4 excerpts, 0 equations, 0 problems
Addition of Coplanar Vectors 8 excerpts, 11 equations, 9 problems
Products of Coplanar Vectors 7 excerpts, 22 equations, 9 problems
Coaxial Quaternions 7 excerpts, 15 equations, 4 problems
Addition of Vectors in Space 4 excerpts, 9 equations, 5 problems
Product of Two Vectors 7 excerpts, 16 equations, 10 problems
Product of Three Vectors 5 excerpts, 5 equations, 6 problems
Composition of Quantities 5 excerpts, 11 equations, 4 problems
Spherical Trigonometry 6 excerpts, 14 equations, 6 problems
Composition of Rotations 5 excerpts, 11 equations, 9 problems

Index of terms 102 terms, by chapter

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