Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Sirkka-Liisa Eriksson

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Written examination

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

Introduction to geometric algebras, analysis and their applications.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Introduction to geometric or Clifford algebras and their basic elements scalars, vectors, bivectors and multivectors
2.	Exterior product, contraction and geometric product and their calculation rules.
3.	Calculation of vector derivatives and integrals using geometric algebras
4.	Cauchy theorem in higher dimensions. Dirac and Maxwell equations

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Summary of lectures	An Introduction to geometric algebras	Janne Pesonen					English

Correspondence of content

Last modified	15.08.2008
Modifier	Hanna Hämäläinen