From: Ka-In Yen on

Eric Gisse wrote:
> Ka-In Yen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > A^(-1) = 1/A = A/A^2
>
> VECTOR DIVISION IS *NOT* A DEFINED OPERATION!
>

Hamilton had defined vector divisoion in 1845. I had posted
this message before.

> [...]
>
> >
> > Area vector is chinilish(chinese-english). It's my bad, my
> > english is not so well. Area vector(chinilish) is same to
> > vector area(english).
>
> It is neither the fault of Chinese (which Chinese? There is a bunch)
> nor English that you do not know what you are talking about.

Please read the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

and you will find:

"It is defined as the vector which is perpendicular
to both a and b with a magnitude equal to the
area of the parallelogram they span."

This is what I am talking about.

From: Ka-In Yen on

Bilge wrote:
> Ka-In Yen, crackpot of the day:
>
> >Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
> [...]
> >> What does the direction in a mass vector represent?
> >
> >In 3D vector algebra, we have to divide a mass by a length vector; so
> >the linear mass density is a vector, and its direction is same to the
> >length vector.
>
> You need a remedial course in vector algebra. Length is a scalar.
> The length of a vector, V is defined by L = sqrt(V.V). A linear
> mass density is a scalar.

From: Ka-In Yen on

Bilge wrote:
> Ka-In Yen, crackpot of the day:
>
> >Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
> [...]
> >> What does the direction in a mass vector represent?
> >
> >In 3D vector algebra, we have to divide a mass by a length vector; so
> >the linear mass density is a vector, and its direction is same to the
> >length vector.
>
> You need a remedial course in vector algebra.

Stupid physicists have been doing vector by vector division
for a hundred years. They need a remedial course in vector
algebra, not me.

> A linear mass density is a scalar.

That's not 3D vector algebra.

From: Phineas T Puddleduck on
In article <1152058227.247299.229410(a)a14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Ka-In Yen <yenkain(a)yahoo.com.tw> wrote:

> Stupid physicists have been doing vector by vector division
> for a hundred years. They need a remedial course in vector
> algebra, not me.
>
> > A linear mass density is a scalar.
>
> That's not 3D vector algebra.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorDivision.html

There is no unique solution A to the matrix equation y=Ax unless x is
parallel to y, in which case A is a scalar. Therefore, vector division
is not defined.

http://www.mcasco.com/qa_vdq.html

Division may be thought of as unmultiplying...you know, find the number
which when multiplied by 3 yields 6. In this example the answer is
obviously 2. In vectors there are two ways of multiplying, the dot
product and the cross product. Vector division then should either undot
a vector and a scalar or uncross a pair of vectors.

The difficulty is that there are more than one vector that when dotted
with (a,b) yields 6, for example. We know this because the dot product
of (a,b)(c,d) is ac+bd=6. If we know a and b there are still two
unknowns in the equation ac+bd=6. Any pair if numbers which satisfy
this equation would qualify as the quotient of 6/(a,b). Therefore dot
division is not defined. Likewise there are infinitely many vectors
which when crossed with (a,b,c) give us (d,e,f). Consider that
AXB=C=|A||B|sin(q), where q is the angle from A to B. Any vector V in
the plane of A and B where |V|sin(u)=|B|sin(q) will yield the same
cross product. Again there are two unknowns, |V| and u, in the equation
so there are infinitely many answers. Therefore cross division is also
undefined.

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From: Eric Gisse on

Ka-In Yen wrote:
> Eric Gisse wrote:
> > Ka-In Yen wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >
> > > A^(-1) = 1/A = A/A^2
> >
> > VECTOR DIVISION IS *NOT* A DEFINED OPERATION!
> >
>
> Hamilton had defined vector divisoion in 1845. I had posted
> this message before.

Good for you. Why don't you look at the previous responses to the times
you have pointed this out, and look at the responses given to you
today.

>
> > [...]
> >
> > >
> > > Area vector is chinilish(chinese-english). It's my bad, my
> > > english is not so well. Area vector(chinilish) is same to
> > > vector area(english).
> >
> > It is neither the fault of Chinese (which Chinese? There is a bunch)
> > nor English that you do not know what you are talking about.
>
> Please read the following page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

I know what the cross product is.

>
> and you will find:
>
> "It is defined as the vector which is perpendicular
> to both a and b with a magnitude equal to the
> area of the parallelogram they span."
>
> This is what I am talking about.

MAGNITUDE IS A SCALAR.

Goddamn you are stupid. Go read a book that covers vector analysis and
stop inventing idiotic terminology.

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