GEM Blog 16: Snarky Puzzle Answers 3

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Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2011 · Science & Technology

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This is a dramatic reading of "Snarky Puzzles 3", a blog by the Stand-Up Physicist available at Science30.com.  Four questions about physics are read, answered, and discussed. This first question is about the group U(1), a circle in the complex plane. The second question is about quaternion derivatives, and steps backwards I have had to take. Field equations are played with in the third question. The talk finishes off with a small riddle about the Klein 4-group and quaternion triple products.

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