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DiPietro on splines and B-splines.Posted on November 4, 2008 12:35 PM • 3 Comments •
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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.
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Geometry:
The Laplace-Runge-Lenz Vector
This note is an edited repost of an item originally published at my old science blag while I was attending TAM 6. You can read the original for some complaints about Michael Shermer (and his infamous PowerPoint), but I'd rather...Posted on October 22, 2008 9:39 AM • 1 Comments •
Einstein Summation and the Levi-Civita Tensor
Part three of a series on rotations, symmetry and whatnot.Posted on October 16, 2008 11:22 AM • 3 Comments •
Rotation Matrices
Second in a series on rotations, symmetries and the like.Posted on October 15, 2008 12:22 PM • 6 Comments •
Rotation and Commutation
First in a series on rotations, symmetries and stuff.Posted on October 14, 2008 3:02 PM • 4 Comments •
Friday Video: Archimedes
You know what ScienceBlogs needs more of? Well, besides equation support and RSS feeds? And besides introductions to basic subjects like optical coherence, and news reports on discoveries like the doubly strange Ωb particle? Gosh, you people are demanding. No,...Posted on September 5, 2008 2:25 PM • 5 Comments •
