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Problem 1.10(a) of DJGriffiths asks: "How do the components of a vector transform under a translation of coordinates?"
This is confusing me (not hard to do) since the translation is given, then isn't it just:
x' = x + A
where A = [tex]\left(\begin{array}{c}
0 \\ -a \\ 0 \end{array}\right)[/tex]
Problem 1.10(b): The same "... inversion ..." so that x' = -I x?
Problem 1.10(c): "How does the cross-product of two vectors transform under inversion?"
Once again, if A is a vector, then it transforms as always A' = RA.
So how is it any different if the vector is generated by a cross-product or is made up by me? It's a vector! Unless the question is not asking about A', but rather about how does BxC transform? ...how would I apply the ransformation to the actual cross-product? I mean, do I take RBxRC or R(BxC)??
sorry if my questions are annoying or too frequent. but it's always the same thing - I read the chapter and have no problem following the theory. Then I get to the Problems section and suddenly it's like the questions have nothing to do with the chapter I just read!
-LD
This is confusing me (not hard to do) since the translation is given, then isn't it just:
x' = x + A
where A = [tex]\left(\begin{array}{c}
0 \\ -a \\ 0 \end{array}\right)[/tex]
Problem 1.10(b): The same "... inversion ..." so that x' = -I x?
Problem 1.10(c): "How does the cross-product of two vectors transform under inversion?"
Once again, if A is a vector, then it transforms as always A' = RA.
So how is it any different if the vector is generated by a cross-product or is made up by me? It's a vector! Unless the question is not asking about A', but rather about how does BxC transform? ...how would I apply the ransformation to the actual cross-product? I mean, do I take RBxRC or R(BxC)??
sorry if my questions are annoying or too frequent. but it's always the same thing - I read the chapter and have no problem following the theory. Then I get to the Problems section and suddenly it's like the questions have nothing to do with the chapter I just read!
-LD
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