Re: Working with vectors symbolically
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- Subject: [mg93609] Re: Working with vectors symbolically
- From: yatesd at mac.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:33 -0500 (EST)
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You are not the first who has tried to figure this out. I had a relatively simple problem to solve, and so defined my vectors in terms of co-ordinates. The problem was simple enough that I could guess the answer by looking at the component solution Mathematica worked out. There is a package that was written by Hong Qin. I have glanced at it, but never used it. Is is available at http://ftp.physics.uwa.edu.au/pub/Mathematica/Calculus/. The package appears to know many of the usual vector rules. It certainly would be nice if Wolfram added this functionality in a future release. Regards, Derek