Angular momentum and torque described with the complex octonion

The paper aims to adopt the complex octonion to formulate the angular momentum, torque, and force etc in the electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Applying the octonionic representation enables one single definition of angular momentum (or torque, force) to combine some physics contents, which w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zi-Hua Weng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-08-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4892165