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Re: vector products



There is this type of discussion of precession in The Cartoon Guide to
Physics on pages 94-100.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Uretsky
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: vector products


I'm planning to oblige in the next few days.
Jack

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Robert Cohen wrote:

I wrote

I'd like someone with more knowledge of GA to explain how
one might go about
discussing torque in a freshmen physics class. That would help me.

to which Jack Uretsky responded:

Many years ago I posted to this list a discussion of
gyroscope precession
that invoked neither pseudovectors nor GA, but just
elementary notions of
force and change of momentum.