Timeline for Without saying "cross product" explain why there is a skew-symmetric angular momentum tensor
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| Dec 17, 2021 at 0:07 | comment | added | Steven Thomas Hatton | Oh, I see. There is a difference between the currently marketed German language version and the translation I'm using. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-97861-6 | |
| Dec 16, 2021 at 21:25 | comment | added | Steven Thomas Hatton | I like the idea of poly-indexing the kernel to represent a poly-vector. Your example is $\mathbf{\hat e}_{ij}=\mathbf{\hat e}_i\wedge\mathbf{\hat e}_j.$ | |
| Dec 16, 2021 at 6:30 | comment | added | Toffomat | Form the points in this answer, it also follows quite easily that the cross product itself is more closely related to planes and areas, and is thus more naturally understood in terms of two-forms. | |
| Dec 15, 2021 at 5:27 | history | answered | HTNW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |