Anyone have a pdf of Maxwell's EQs in quaternions

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Just curious. You can do a lot of stuff with quaternions that you can't in vectors.
 
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Runaway Monocle said:
Just curious. You can do a lot of stuff with quaternions that you can't in vectors.

There are a number of sites. Google on MAXWELL EQUATIONS QUATERNION.
 
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