Introduction
Overview
A brief history of quaternions
Multiplying quaternions the easy
way
Inner and outer products
Algebraic tools
is an HTML document
Understanding a Mathematica
notebook
Classical Mechanics
F = ma
4 tests of a conservative force
The simple harmonic oscillator
and wave equation
Special Relativity
An alternative algebra for
boosts
PS1: Kinematic effects of relativity
PS2: More kinematic effects
PS3: The Lorentz transformation
and the addition of velocities
PS4: The Doppler effect, 4-vector
invariants, and the twin paradox
PS5: Energy, Mass and Momentum
PS6: The Compton effect and
the threshold collision problems
Electricity and Magnetism
Classical electrodynamics
Quantum electrodynamics
The Maxwell equations in the
Lorenz gauge
The Lorentz Force
Gauge transformations
Quantum Mechanics
Bracket notation & quaternions:
quaternions as a complete inner product space
Polar representations
Multiplying quaternion exponentials
(without Campbell-Hausdorff)
Commutators and the uncertainty
principle
The
Schrödinger equation
The Klein-Gordon equation
Time reversal
Gravity
Please see my current work to unify gravity and EM at the top of the quaternions.com page.
Answering question in quantum gravity
Gravitational redshift experiments
The length of a quaternion
in curved spacetime
Conclusions
A (very brief) summary of
physics equations written as quaternions
Conclusions
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