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Vector Analysis logo #21000 Vector Analysis is a textbook by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, first published in 1901 and based on the lectures that Josiah Willard Gibbs had delivered on the subject at Yale University. The book did much to standardize the notation and vocabulary of three-dimensional linear algebra and vector calculus, as used by physicists and mathematicians. It went t...
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vector analysis logo #21003a branch of mathematics that deals with quantities that have both magnitude and direction. Some physical and geometric quantities, called scalars, ... [5 related articles]
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vector analysis logo #21001analysis of a moving force to determine both its magnitude and its direction, such as analysis of the scalar electrocardiogram to determine the magnitude and direction of the electromotive force for one complete cycle of the heart.
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