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Pierre's Puzzle solved using bivectors



Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

I second Robert's plead for a little tutorial "for the rest of us."
...
Please assume that the reader is going to be a student in the
first semester of the first physics course without calculus.

OK, here's a start:

A magnetostatics puzzle, solved in some detail using
bivectors. And without any nasty cross products.

No calculus. Indeed, no math whatsoever, although you
have to accept a couple of assertions about the orientation
of the magnetic field bivector.

http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/pierre-puzzle.htm