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Orthogonal Matrices in Three Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Harold Jeffreys*
Affiliation:
St. John’s College, Cambridge

Extract

It is known that if a solid is turned right-handedly through an angle θ about a line with direction cosines ni, a particle with co-ordinates xi moves to yi, where

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1965

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References

page 192 note * Why do algebraists write determinants as if they were moduli?

page 192 note † Introduction to Geometry, 1961, pp. 96-102.