Polar Representations of Quaternions
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Channel: Doug Sweetser · 2010 · Science & Technology
The polar representation of quaternions is identical to what happens for complex numbers except the imaginary i gets replaced by an imaginary 3-vector, i, j, and k. To get to an event from the origin requires heading off in a certain direction at a certain speed. This is what the polar representation of quaternions accomplishes. The preprint is available at http://VisualPhysics.org/preprints/QMN1009.2352
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