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We are trying to predict patterns of how words occur in documents instead of trying to predict patterns of how players score on holes. +\chapter{Quaternions} +\begin{center} +\bigskip +\large Peter Guthrie Tait, Robert S. Sutor, Timothy Daly + +\end{center} +\section*{Preface} +\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Preface} +The Theory of Quaternions is due to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, +Royal Astronomer of Ireland, who presented his first paper on the +subject to the Royal Irish Academy in 1843. His Lectures on +Quaternions were published in 1853, and his Elements, in 1866, +shortly after his death. The Elements of Quaternions by Tait\cite{33} is +the accepted text-book for advanced students. + +Large portions of this file are derived from a public domain version +of Tait's book combined with the algebra available in Axiom. +The purpose is to develop a tutorial introduction to the Axiom +domain and its uses. +\newpage + +\section{Quaternions} + +\section{Vectors, and their Composition} + +{\bf 1}. For at least two centuries the geometrical representation +of the negative and imaginary algebraic quantities, $-1$ and $\sqrt{-1}$ +has been a favourite subject of speculation with mathematicians. +The essence of almost all of the proposed processes consists in +employing such expressions to indicate the DIRECTION, not the +{\sl length}, of lines. + +{\bf 2}. Thus it was long ago seen that if positive quantities were +measured off in one direction along a fixed line, a useful and lawful +convention enabled us to express negative quantities of the same +kind by simply laying them off on the same line in the opposite +direction. This convention is an essential part of the Cartesian +method, and is constantly employed in Analytical Geometry and +Applied Mathematics. + +{\bf 3}. Wallis, towards the end of the seventeenth century, proposed +to represent the impossible roots of a quadratic equation by going +{\sl out} of the line on which, if real, they would have been laid off. +This construction is equivalent to the consideration of $\sqrt{-1}$ as a +directed unit-line perpendicular to that on which real quantities +are measured. + +{\bf 4}. In the usual notation of Analytical Geometry of two +dimensions, when rectangular axes are employed, this amounts +to reckoning each unit of length along $Oy$ as $+\sqrt{-1}$, and on +$Oy^{'}$ as $-\sqrt{-1}$ ; while on $Ox$ each unit is $+1$, and on +$Ox$ it is $-1$. + +If we look at these four lines in circular order, i.e. in the order of +positive rotation (that of the northern hemisphere of the earth +about its axis, or {\sl opposite} to that of the hands of a watch), they +give +$$ 1, \sqrt{-1}, -1, -\sqrt{-1}$$ + +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +In Axiom the same elements would be written as complex numbers +which are constructed using the function {\bf complex}: +\spadcommand{complex(1,0)} +$$1$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{complex(0,1)} +$$\%i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{complex(-1,0)} +$$-1$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{complex(0,-1)} +$$-i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +Note that \%i is of type Complex(Integer), that is, the imaginary +part of a complex number. The apparently equivalent expression +\spadcommand{sqrt(-1)} +$$\sqrt{-1}$$ +\returnType{Type: AlgebraicNumber} +has the type AlgebraicNumber which means that it is the root of +a polynomial with rational coefficients.\\ +} + +In this series each expression is derived from that which precedes +it by multiplication by the factor $\sqrt{-1}$. Hence we may consider +$\sqrt{-1}$ as an operator, analogous to a handle perpendicular to the +plane of $xy$, whose effect on any line in that plane is to make it +rotate (positively) about the origin through an angle of $90^{\circ}$. + +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +In Axiom +\spadcommand{\%i*\%i} +$$-1$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +} + +{\bf 5}. In such a system, (which seems to have been first developed, +in 1805, by Bu\'ee) a point in the plane of reference is defined by a +single imaginary expression. Thus $a + b\sqrt{-1}$ may be considered +as a single quantity, denoting the point, $P$, whose coordinates are +$a$ and $b$. Or, it may be used as an expression for the line $OP$ +joining that point with the origin. In the latter sense, the expression +$a + b\sqrt{-1}$ implicitly contains the {\sl direction}, as well as the +{\sl length}, of this line ; since, as we see at once, the direction is +inclined at an angle $\tan^{-1}(b/a)$ to the axis of $x$, +and the length is $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$. Thus, say we have +$$OP = a + b\sqrt{-1}$$ +the line $OP$ considered as that by which we pass from one +extremity, $O$, to the other, $P$. In this sense it is called a VECTOR. +Considering, in the plane, any other vector, +$$OQ = a^{'}+b^{'}\sqrt{-1}$$ + +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +In order to created superscripted variables we use the superscript +function from the SYMBOL domain. So we can create $a^{'}$ as ``ap'' +(that is, ``a-prime'') and $b^{'}$ as ``bp'' (``b-prime'') thus +(also note that the underscore character is Axiom's escape character +which removes any special meaning of the next character, in this case, +the quote character): +\spadcommand{ap:=superscript(a,[\_'])} +$$a^{'}$$ +\returnType{Type: Symbol} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{bp:=superscript(b,[\_'])} +$$b^{'}$$ +\returnType{Type: Symbol} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +at this point we can type +\spadcommand{ap+bp*\%i} +$$a^{'}+b^{'}\ \%i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} +} + +the addition of these two lines obviously gives +$$OR = a + a^{'} + (b + b^{'})\sqrt{-1}$$ + +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +In Axiom the computation looks like: +\spadcommand{op:=complex(a,b)} +$$a + b\ \%i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{oq:=complex(ap,bp)} +$$a^{'} + b^{'}\ \%i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} +} +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{op + oq} +$$a + a^{'} + (b + b^{'})\%i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} +} + +and we see that the sum is the diagonal of the parallelogram on +$OP$, $OQ$. This is the law of the composition of simultaneous +velocities; and it contains, of course, the law of subtraction of one +directed line from another. + +{\bf 6}. Operating on the first of these symbols by the factor $\sqrt{-1}$, +it becomes $- b + a\sqrt{-1}$; and now, of course, denotes the point +whose $x$ and $y$ coordinates are $- b$ and $a$; or the line joining this +point with the origin. The length is still $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$, but the angle +the line makes with the axis of $x$ is $\tan^{-1}(- a/b)$; which is +evidently greater by $\pi/2$ than before the operation. + +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{op*complex(0,1)} +$$-b+a\ i$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} +} + +{\bf 7}. De Moivre's Theorem tends to lead us still further in the +same direction. In fact, it is easy to see that if we use, instead +of $\sqrt{-1}$, the more general factor $\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha$, +its effect on +any line is to turn it through the (positive) angle $\alpha$. in the plane +of $x$, $y$. [Of course the former factor, $\sqrt{-1}$, is merely the +particular case of this, when $\alpha=\frac{\pi}{2}$]. + +Thus +$$ +\begin{array}{ll} + &(\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha) (a + b \sqrt{-1})\\ += & a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha + \sqrt{-1} (a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha) +\end{array} +$$ + +by direct multiplication. The reader will at once see that the new +form indicates that a rotation through an angle $\alpha$ has taken place, +if he compares it with the common formulae for turning the coordinate +axes through a given angle. Or, in a less simple manner, thus + +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +Length & = & \sqrt{(a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha)^2 + + (a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha)^2} \\ + & = & \sqrt{a^2 + b^2} +\end{array} +$$ +as before. + +Inclination to axis of $x$ +$$ +\begin{array}{cl} += & \tan^{-1}{\frac{a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha} + {a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha}}\\ += & \tan^{-1}{\frac{\tan \alpha + \frac{b}{a}} + {1 - \frac{b}{a} \tan \alpha}}\\ += & \alpha + \tan^{-1}{\frac{b}{a}} +\end{array} +$$ + +{\bf 8}. We see now, as it were, why it happens that + +$$(\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha)^m = +\cos m\alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin m\alpha +$$ + +In fact, the first operator produces $m$ successive rotations in the +same direction, each through the angle $\alpha$ ; the second, a single +rotation through the angle $m\alpha$. + +{\bf 9}. It may be interesting, at this stage, to anticipate so far as to +remark that in the theory of Quaternions the analogue of + +$$ +\begin{array}{lclr} + & \textrm{ } & \cos \theta + \sqrt{-1} \sin \theta &\\ +\textrm{is} & \textrm{ } & \cos \theta + \omega \sin \theta &\\ +\textrm{where} & \textrm{ } & \omega^2 = -1 & \\ +\end{array} +$$ + +Here, however, $\omega$ is not the algebraic $\sqrt{-1}$, but is +{\sl any directed unit-line} whatever in space. + +{\bf 10}. In the present century Argand, Warren, Mourey, and +others, extended the results of Wallis and Bu\'ee. They attempted +to express as a line the product of two lines each represented by a +symbol such $a+b\sqrt{-1}$. To a certain extent they succeeded, +but all their results remained confined to two dimensions. + +The product, $\prod$, of two such lines was defined as the fourth +proportional to unity and the two lines, thus + +$$ +\begin{array}{lclr} + & \textrm{ } & +1 : a+b\sqrt{-1} :: a^{'}+b^{'}\sqrt{-1} : \prod\\ +\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & +\prod = (aa^{'} - bb^{'})+(a^{'}b+b^{'}a)\sqrt{-1} +\end{array} +$$ + +The length of $\prod$ is obviously the product of the lengths of the +factor lines; and its direction makes an angle with the axis of $x$ +which is the sum of those made by the factor lines. From this +result the quotient of two such lines follows immediately. + +{\bf 11}. A very curious speculation, due to Servois and published +in 1813 in Gergonne's {\sl Annales}, is one of the very few, so far as has +been discovered, in which a well-founded guess at a possible mode +of extension to three dimensions is contained. Endeavouring to +extend to {\sl space} the form $a+b\sqrt{-1}$ for the plane, he is guided by +analogy to write for a directed unit-line in space the form + +$$p \cos \alpha + q \cos \beta + r \cos \gamma$$ + +where $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are its inclinations to the three axes. He perceives +easily that $p$, $q$, $r$ must be {\sl non-reals}: +but, he asks, ``seraient-elles +{\sl imaginaires} r\'eductibles \`a la forme g\'en\'erale $A+B\sqrt{-1}$?'' +The $i$,$j$, $k$ of the Quaternion Calculus furnish an answer to this +question. (See Chap. II.) But it may be remarked that, in applying the +idea to lines in a plane, a vector $OP$ will no longer be represented +(as in \S 5) by +$$ +\begin{array}{lclr} + & \textrm{ OP} & = & a + b\sqrt{-1}\\ +\textrm{but by} & \textrm{ OP} & = & pa + qb\\ +\textrm{And if, similarly,} & \textrm{ OQ} & = & pa^{'} + qb^{'}\\ +\end{array} +$$ + +the addition of these two lines gives for $OR$ (which retains its +previous signification) +$$OR = p(a+a^{'} + q(b+b^{'})$$ + +{\bf 12}. Beyond this, few attempts were made, or at least recorded, +in earlier times, to extend the principle to space of three dimensions; +and, though many such had been made before 1843, none, +with the single exception of Hamilton's, have resulted in simple, +practical methods; all, however ingenious, seeming to lead almost +at once to processes and results of fearful complexity. + +For a lucid, complete, and most impartial statement of the +claims of his predecessors in this field we refer to the Preface to +Hamilton's {\sl Lectures on Quaternions}. He there shows how his long +protracted investigations of Sets culminated in this unique system +of tridimensional-space geometry. + +{\bf 13}. It was reserved for Hamilton to discover the use and +properties of a class of symbols which, though all in a certain sense +square roots of -1, may be considered as {\sl real} unit lines, tied down +to no particular direction in space ; the expression for a vector is, +or may be taken to be, +$$ \rho = ix + jy + kz$$ + +but such vector is considered in connection with an {\sl extraspatial} +magnitude $w$, and we have thus the notion of a QUATERNION + +$$w + \rho$$ + +This is the fundamental notion in the singularly elegant, and +enormously powerful, Calculus of Quaternions. + +While the schemes for using the algebraic $\sqrt{-1}$ to indicate +direction make one direction in space expressible by real numbers, +the remainder being imaginaries of some kind, and thus lead to +expressions which are heterogeneous ; Hamilton s system makes all +directions in space equally imaginary, or rather equally real, thereby +ensuring to his Calculus the power of dealing with space +indifferently in all directions. + +In fact, as we shall see, the Quaternion method is independent +of axes or any supposed directions in space, and takes its reference +lines solely from the problem it is applied to. + +{\bf 14}. But, for the purpose of elementary exposition, it is best +to begin by assimilating it as closely as we can to the ordinary +Cartesian methods of Geometry of Three Dimensions, with which +the student is supposed to be, to some extent at least, acquainted. +Such assistance, it will be found, can (as a rule) soon be dispensed +with; and Hamilton regarded any apparent necessity for an oc +casional recurrence to it, in higher applications, as an indication +of imperfect development in the proper methods of the new +Calculus. + +We commence, therefore, with some very elementary geometrical +ideas, relating to the theory of vectors in space. It will subsequently +appear how we are thus led to the notion of a Quaternion. + +{\bf 15}. Suppose we have two points $A$ and $B$ in {\sl space}, and suppose +$A$ given, on how many numbers does $B$'s relative position depend ? + +If we refer to Cartesian coordinates (rectangular or not) we find +that the data required are the excesses of $B$'s three coordinates +over those of $A$. Hence three numbers are required. + +Or we may take polar coordinates. To define the moon's +position with respect to the earth we must have its Geocentric +Latitude and Longitude, or its Right Ascension and Declination, +and, in addition, its distance or radius-vector. {\sl Three} again. + +{\bf 16}. Here it is to be carefully noticed that nothing has been +said of the {\sl actual} coordinates of either A or B, or of the earth +and moon, in space; it is only the {\sl relative} coordinates that are +contemplated. + +Hence any expression, as $\overline{AB}$, denoting a line considered with +reference to direction and currency as well as length, (whatever +may be its actual position in space) contains implicitly {\sl three} +numbers, and all lines parallel and equal to $AB$, and concurrent +with it, depend in the same way upon the same three. Hence, {\sl all +lines which are equal, parallel, and concurrent, may be represented +by a common symbol, and that symbol contains three distinct numbers}. +In this sense a line is called a VECTOR, since by it we pass from +the one extremity, $A$, to the other, $B$, and it may thus be +considered as an instrument which {\sl carries} $A$ to $B$: so that a +vector may be employed to indicate a definite {\sl translation} in space. + +[The term " currency " has been suggested by Cayley for use +instead of the somewhat vague suggestion sometimes taken to +be involved in the word "direction." Thus parallel lines have +the same direction, though they may have similar or opposite +currencies. The definition of a vector essentially includes its +currency.] + +{\bf 17}. We may here remark, once for all, that in establishing a +new Calculus, we are at liberty to give any definitions whatever +of our symbols, provided that no two of these interfere with, or +contradict, each other, and in doing so in Quaternions {sl simplicity} +and (so to speak) {\sl naturalness} were the inventor's aim. + +{\bf 18}. Let $\overline{AB}$ be represented by $\alpha$, we know that +$\alpha$ involves +{\sl three} separate numbers, and that these depend solely upon the +position of $B$ {\sl relatively} to $A$. +Now if $CD$ be equal in length to $AB$ +and if these lines be parallel, and have the same currency, we may +evidently write +$$\overline{CD} = \overline{AB} = \alpha$$ +where it will be seen that the sign of equality between vectors +contains implicitly {\sl equality in length}, {\sl parallelism in direction}, +and {\sl concurrency}. So far we have {\sl extended} the meaning of an +algebraical symbol. And it is to be noticed that an equation +between vectors, as +$$\alpha = \beta$$ +contains {\sl three} distinct equations between mere numbers. + +{\bf 19}. We must now define $+$ (and the meaning of $-$ will follow) +in the new Calculus. Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be any three points, and (with +the above meaning of $=$ ) let +$$\overline{AB} = \alpha, \overline{BC} = \beta, \overline{AC} = \gamma$$ +If we define $+$ (in accordance with the idea (\S 16) that a vector +represents a {\sl translation}) by the equation +$$ +\begin{array}{lcl} + & \textrm{ } & \alpha + \beta = \gamma\\ + & & \\ +\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & +\overline{AB} + \overline{BC} = \overline{AC} +\end{array} +$$ +we contradict nothing that precedes, but we at once introduce the +idea that {\sl vectors are to be compounded}, +{\sl in direction and magnitude}, +{\sl like simultaneous velocities}. A reason for this may be seen in +another way if we remember that by {\sl adding} the (algebraic) differences +of the Cartesian coordinates of $B$ and $A$, to those of the +coordinates of $C$ and $B$, we get those of the coordinates of $C$ and +$A$. Hence these coordinates enter {\sl linearly} into the expression for +a vector. (See, again, \S 5.) + +{\bf 20}. But we also see that if $C$ and $A$ coincide (and $C$ may be +{\sl any} point) +$$\overline{AC} = 0$$ +for no vector is then required to carry $A$ to $C$. Hence the above +relation may be written, in this case, +$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BA} = 0$$ +or, introducing, and by the same act defining, the symbol $-$, +$$\overline{AB} = -\overline{BA}$$ + +Hence, {\sl the symbol $-$, applied to a vector, simply shows that its +currency is to be reversed}. +And this is consistent with all that precedes; for instance, +$$ +\begin{array}{lcrcl} + & \textrm{ } & \overline{AB} + \overline{BC} &=& \overline{AC}\\ +\textrm{and} & \textrm{ } & \overline{AB} = \overline{AC} &-& \overline{BC} \\ +\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & = \overline{AC} &+& \overline{CB} \\ +\end{array} +$$ +are evidently but different expressions of the same truth. + +{\bf 21}. In any triangle, $ABC$, we have, of course, +$$\overline{AB} + \overline{BC} + \overline{CA} = 0$$ +and, in any closed polygon, whether plane or gauche, +$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\ldots+\overline{YZ}+\overline{ZA} = 0$$ + +In the case of the polygon we have also +$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\ldots+\overline{YZ} = \overline{AZ}$$ + +These are the well-known propositions regarding composition +of velocities, which, by Newton's second law of motion, give us +the geometrical laws of composition of forces acting at one point. + +{\bf 22}. If we compound any number of {\bf parallel} vectors, the result +is obviously a numerical multiple of any one of them. +Thus, if $A$, $B$, $C$ are in one straight line, +$$\overline{BC} = x\overline{AB}$$ +where $x$ is a number, positive when $B$ lies between $A$ and $C$, +otherwise negative; but such that its numerical value, independent +of sign, is the ratio of the length of $BC$ to that of $AB$. This is +at once evident if $AB$ and $BC$ be commensurable; and is easily +extended to incommensurables by the usual {\sl reductio ad absurdum}. + +{\bf 23}. An important, but almost obvious, proposition is that {\sl any +vector may be resolved, and in one way only, into three components +parallel respectively to any three given vectors, no two of which are +parallel, and which are not parallel to one plane}. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat1.ps} + +Let $OA$, $OB$, $OC$ be the three fixed +vectors, $OP$ any other vector. From $P$ draw +$PQ$ parallel to $CO$, meeting the plane $BOA$ +in $Q$. [There must be a definite point $Q$, +else $PQ$, and therefore $CO$, would be parallel +to $BOA$, a case specially excepted.] From $Q$ +draw $QR$ parallel to $BO$, meeting $OA$ in $R$. + +Then we have $\overline{OP}=\overline{OR} + \overline{RQ} + \overline{QP}$ +(\S 21), +and these components are respectively parallel to the three given +vectors. By \S 22 we may express $\overline{OR}$ as a numerical multiple +of $\overline{OA}$, $\overline{RQ}$ of $\overline{OB}$, and +$\overline{QP}$ of $\overline{OC}$. Hence we have, generally, for +any vector in terms of three fixed non-coplanar vectors, $\alpha$, +$\beta$, $\gamma$ +$$\overline{OP} = \rho = x\alpha + y\beta + z\gamma$$ +which exhibits, in one form, the {\sl three} numbers on which a vector +depends (\S 16). Here $x$, $y$, $z$ are perfectly definite, and can have +but single values. + +{\bf 24}. Similarly any vector, as $\overline{OQ}$, in the same plane with +$\overline{OA}$ and $\overline{OB}$, +can be resolved (in one way only) into components $\overline{OR}$, +$\overline{RQ}$, +parallel respectively to $\overline{OA}$ and +$\overline{OB}$; so long, at least, as these +two vectors are not parallel to each other. + +{\bf 25}. There is particular advantage, in certain cases, in employing +a series of {\sl three mutually perpendicular unit-vectors} as +lines of reference. This system Hamilton denotes by $i$,$j$, $k$. + +Any other vector is then expressible as +$$\rho= xi + yj + zk$$ +Since $i$, $j$, $k$ are unit-vectors, $x$, $y$, $z$ are here the lengths of +conterminous edges of a rectangular parallelepiped of which $\rho$ +is the vector-diagonal; so that the length of $\rho$ is, in this case, +$$\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$ +Let \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\omega = \xi i + \eta j + \zeta k$\\ +be any other vector, then (by the proposition of \S 23) the vector +$$ +\begin{array}{lcr} +\textrm{equation} & \textrm{ } & \rho = \omega +\end{array} +$$ +obviously involves the following three equations among numbers, +$$x=\xi, y=\eta, z=\zeta$$ +Suppose $i$ to be drawn eastwards, $j$ northwards, and $k$ upwards, +this is equivalent merely to saying that {\sl if two points coincide, they +are equally to the east (or west) of any third point, equally to the +north (or south) of it, and equally elevated above (or depressed below) +its level.} + +{\bf 26}. It is to be carefully noticed that it is only when +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are not coplanar that a vector equation such as +$$\rho = \omega$$ +or\hbox{\hskip 3cm} +$x\alpha + y\beta + z\gamma = \xi \alpha + \eta \beta + \zeta \gamma$\\ +necessitates the three numerical equations +$$x = \xi, y = \eta, z = \zeta$$ +For, if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be coplanar (\S 24), +a condition of the following form must hold +$$\gamma = a\alpha + b\beta$$ +Hence,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=(x+za)\alpha+(y+zb)\beta$\\ +\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\omega=(\xi+\zeta a)\alpha + (\eta+\zeta b)\beta$\\ +and the equation\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=\omega$\\ +now requires only the two numerical conditions +$$x+za=\xi+\zeta a\hbox{\hskip 1cm}y+zb = \eta+\zeta b$$ + +{\bf 27}. {\sl The Commutative and Associative Laws hold in the combination +of vectors by the signs $+$ and $-$}. It is obvious that, if we +prove this for the sign $+$, it will be equally proved for $-$, because +$-$ before a vector (\S 20) merely indicates that it is to be reversed +before being considered positive. + +Let $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ be, in order, the corners of a parallelogram ; we +have, obviously, +$$\overline{AB} = \overline{DC}\hbox{\hskip 1cm}\overline{AD}=\overline{BC}$$ +And \hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}= +\overline{AC}= +\overline{AD}+\overline{DC}= +\overline{BC}+\overline{AB}$ + +Hence the commutative law is true for the addition of any two +vectors, and is therefore generally true. + +Again, whatever four points are represented by $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$, we +$$\overline{AD}=\overline{AB}+\overline{BD}=\overline{AC}+\overline{CD}$$ +or substituting their values for $\overline{AD}$, $\overline{BD}$, +$\overline{AC}$ respectively, in these three expressions, +$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\overline{CD}= +\overline{AB}+(\overline{BC}+\overline{CD})= +(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC})+\overline{CD}$$ +And thus the truth of the associative law is evident. + +{\bf 28}. The equation +$$\rho = x\beta$$ +where $\rho$ is the vector connecting a variable point with the origin, +$\beta$ a definite vector, and $x$ an indefinite number, represents the +straight line drawn from the origin parallel to $\beta$ (\S 22). + +The straight line drawn from $A$, where $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, +and parallel to $\beta$, has the equation +$$\rho = \alpha + x\beta\eqno(1)$$ +In words, we may pass directly from $O$ to $P$ by the vector $\overline{OP}$ +or $\rho$; or we may pass first to $A$, by means of $\overline{OA}$ or +$\alpha$, and then to $P$ along a vector parallel to $\beta$ (\S 16). + +Equation (1) is one of the many useful forms into which +Quaternions enable us to throw the general equation of a straight +line in space. As we have seen (\S 25) it is equivalent to three +numerical equations; but, as these involve the indefinite quantity +$x$, they are virtually equivalent to but {\sl two}, as in ordinary Geometry +of Three Dimensions. + +{\bf 29}. A good illustration of this remark is furnished by the fact +that the equation +$$\rho = y\alpha + x\beta$$ +which contains two indefinite quantities, is virtually equivalent to +only one numerical equation. And it is easy to see that it represents +the plane in which the lines $\alpha$ and $\beta$ lie; or the surface +which is formed by drawing, through every point of $OA$, a line +parallel to $OB$. In fact, the equation, as written, is simply \S 24 +in symbols. + +And it is evident that the equation +$$\rho = \gamma + y\alpha + x\beta$$ +is the equation of the plane passing through the extremity of $\gamma$, +and parallel to $\alpha$ and $\beta$. + +It will now be obvious to the reader that the equation +$$\rho = p_1\alpha_1+p_2\alpha_2+\ldots=\sum{p\alpha}$$ +where $\alpha_1$, $\alpha_2$ , \&c. are given vectors, +and $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. numerical quantities, +{\sl represents a straight line} +if $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. be linear functions of +{\sl one} indeterminate number; and a {\sl plane}, if they be linear +expressions containing two indeterminate numbers. Later (\S 31 (l)), +this theorem will be much extended. + +Again, the equation +$$\rho = x\alpha + y\beta +z\gamma$$ +refers to {\sl any} point whatever in space, provided +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ are not coplanar. (Ante, \S 23) + +{\bf 30}. The equation of the line joining any two points $A$ and $B$, +where $\overline{OA} = \alpha$ and $\overline{OB} = \beta$, is obviously +$$\rho = \alpha + x(\beta-\alpha)$$ +or \hbox{\hskip 4.2cm}$\rho=\beta+y(\alpha-\beta)$\\ +These equations are of course identical, as may be seen by putting +$1-y$ for $x$. + +The first may be written +$$\rho+(x-1)\alpha-x\beta = 0$$ +or\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$p\rho+q\alpha+r\beta=0$\\ +subject to the condition $p + q + r = 0$ identically. That is -- +A homogeneous linear function of three vectors, equated to zero, +expresses that the extremities of these vectors are in one straight +line, {\sl if the sum of the coefficients be identically zero}. + +Similarly, the equation of the plane containing the extremities +$A$, $B$, $C$ of the three non-coplanar vectors +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ is +$$\rho=\alpha+x(\beta-\alpha)+y(\gamma-\beta)$$ +where $x$ and $y$ are each indeterminate. + +This may be written +$$p\rho + q\alpha + r\beta +s\gamma = 0$$ +with the identical relation +$$p+q+r+x=0$$ +which is one form of the condition that four points may lie in one plane. + +{\bf 31}. We have already the means of proving, in a very simple +manner, numerous classes of propositions in plane and solid +geometry. A very few examples, however, must suffice at this +stage; since we have hardly, as yet, crossed the threshold of the +subject, and are dealing with mere linear equations connecting two +or more vectors, and even with them {\sl we are restricted as yet to +operations of mere addition}. We will give these examples with a +painful minuteness of detail, which the reader will soon find to be +necessary only for a short time, if at all. + +(a) {\sl The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other}. + +Let $ABCD$ be the parallelogram, $O$ the point of intersection of +its diagonals. Then +$$\overline{AO}+\overline{OB}=\overline{AB}=\overline{DC}= +\overline{DO}+\overline{OC}$$ +which gives\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{AO}-\overline{OC}= +\overline{DO}-\overline{OB}$\\ +The two vectors here equated are parallel to the diagonals respectively. +Such an equation is, of course, absurd unless +\begin{enumerate} +\item The diagonals are parallel, in which case the figure +is not a parallelogram; +\item $\overline{AO} = \overline{OC}$, and +$\overline{DO} = \overline{OB}$, the proposition. +\end{enumerate} + +(b) {\sl To shew that a triangle can be constructed, whose sides +are parallel, and equal, to the bisectors of the sides of any +triangle}. + +Let $ABC$ be any triangle, $Aa$, $Bb$, $Cc$ the bisectors of the +sides. + +Then +$$ +\begin{array}{ccc} +\overline{Aa} & =\overline{AB}+\overline{Ba} + & =\overline{AB}+\frac{1}{2}\overline{BC}\\ +\overline{Bb} & \ldots & = \overline{BC} + \frac{1}{2}\overline{CA}\\ +\overline{Cc} & \ldots & = \overline{CA} + \frac{1}{2}\overline{AB} +\end{array} +$$ +Hence \hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{Aa}+\overline{Bb}+\overline{Cc}= +\frac{3}{2}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\overline{CA})=0$\\ +which (\S 21) proves the proposition. + +Also +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\overline{Aa} & = & \overline{AB}+\frac{1}{2}\overline{BC}\\ + & = & \overline{AB}-\frac{1}{2}(\overline{CA}+\overline{AB})\\ + & = & \frac{1}{2}(\overline{AB}-\overline{CA})\\ + & = & \frac{1}{2}(\overline{AB}+\overline{AC}) +\end{array} +$$ +results which are sometimes useful. They may be easily verified +by producing $\overline{Aa}$ to twice its length and joining the extremity +with $B$. + +($b^{'}$) {\sl The bisectors of the sides of a triangle meet in a point, +which trisects each of them}. + +Taking $A$ as origin, and putting $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +for vectors parallel, and +equal, to the sides taken in order $BC$, $CA$, $AB$; the equation of +$Bb$ is (\S 28 (1)) +$$\rho=\gamma+x(\gamma+\frac{\beta}{2})=(1+x)\gamma+\frac{x}{2}\beta$$ +That of $Cc$ is, in the same way, +$$\rho=-(1+y)\beta-\frac{y}{2}\gamma$$ +At the point $O$, where $Bb$ and $Cc$ intersect, +$$\rho=(1+x)\gamma+\frac{x}{2}\beta=-(1+y)\beta-\frac{y}{2}\gamma$$ +Since $\gamma$ and $\beta$ are not parallel, this equation gives +$$1+x=-\frac{y}{2}\textrm{\ \ and\ \ }\frac{x}{2}=-(1+y)$$ +From these\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$x=y=-\frac{2}{3}$ + +Hence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\overline{AO}=\frac{1}{3}(\gamma-\beta)= +\frac{2}{3}\overline{Aa}$ (See Ex. (b))\\ + +This equation shows, being a vector one, that $\overline{Aa}$ passes +through $O$, and that $AO$ : $Oa$ :: 2:1. + +(c) If +$$\overline{OA}=\alpha$$ +$$\overline{OB}=\beta$$ +$$\overline{OC}=l\alpha+m\beta$$ +{\sl be three given co-planar vectors, $c$ the intersection of $AB$, $OC$, and +if the lines indicated in the figure be drawn, the points +$a_1$,$b_1$,$c_1$ lie in a straight line. } +\includegraphics{ps/quat2.ps} + +We see at once, by the process indicated in \S 30, that +$$\overline{Oc}=\frac{l\alpha+m\beta}{l+m},\hbox{\hskip 1cm} +\overline{Ob}=\frac{l\alpha}{1-m},\hbox{\hskip 1cm} +\overline{Oa}=\frac{m\beta}{1-l}$$ +Hence we easily find +$$\overline{Oa_1}=-\frac{m\beta}{1-l-2m},\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\overline{Ob_1}=-\frac{l\alpha}{1-2l-m},\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\overline{Oc_1}=\frac{-l\alpha+m\beta}{m-l}$$ +These give +$$-(1-l-2m)\overline{Oa_1}+(1-2l-m)\overline{Ob_1}-(m-l)\overline{Oc_1}=0$$ +But\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$-(1-l-2m)+(1-2l-m)-(m - l)=0$ identically. + +This, by \S 30, proves the proposition. + +(d) Let $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, +$\overline{OB} = \beta$, be any two vectors. If $MP$ be a +given line parallel to $OB$; and $OQ$, $BQ$, be drawn parallel to $AP$, +$OP$ respectively ; the locus of $Q$ is a straight line parallel to $OA$. + +\noindent +\includegraphics{ps/quat3.ps} + +\noindent +Let \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{OM}=e\alpha$\\ +Then \hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\overline{AP}=\overline{e-1}\alpha+x\beta$ + +Hence the equation of $OQ$ is +$$\rho=y(\overline{e-1}\alpha+x\beta)$$ +and that of $BQ$ is\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\rho=\beta+z(e\alpha+x\beta)$\\ +At Q we have, therefore, +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{c} +xy=1+zx\\ +y(e-1)=ze +\end{array} +\right\} +$$ +These give $xy = e$, and the equation of the locus of $Q$ is +$$\rho = e\beta+y^{'}\alpha$$ +i.e. a straight line parallel to $OA$, drawn through $N$ in $OB$ +produced, so that +$$ON : OB :: OM : OA$$ + +COR. If $BQ$ meet $MP$ in $q$, $\overline{Pq} = \beta$; +and if $AP$ meet $NQ$ in $p$, $\overline{Qp} = \alpha$. + +Also, for the point $R$ we have $\overline{pR} = \overline{AP}$, +$\overline{QR} = \overline{Bq}$. + +Further, the locus of $R$ is a hyperbola, of which $MP$ and $NQ$ +are the asymptotes. See, in this connection, \S 31 (k) below. + +Hence, {\sl if from any two points, $A$ and $B$, lines be drawn intercepting +a given length $Pq$ on a given line $Mq$ ; and if, from $R$ their +point of intersection, $Rp$ be laid off $= PA$, and $RQ = qB$ ; $Q$ and $p$ +lie on a fixed straight line, and the length of $Qp$ is constant}. + +(e) {\sl To find the centre of inertia of any system of masses.} + +If $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, $\overline{OB} = \alpha_1$, +be the vector sides of any triangle, the +vector from the vertex dividing the base $AB$ in $C$ so that +$$BC : CA :: m : m_1$$ +is \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1}$\\ + +For $AB$ is $\alpha_1-\alpha$, and therefore $\overline{AC}$ is +$$\frac{m_1}{m+m_1}(\alpha_1-\alpha)$$ + +Hence\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\overline{OC}=\overline{OA}+\overline{AC}$ +$$=\alpha+\frac{m_1}{m+m_1}(\alpha_1-\alpha)$$ +$$=\frac{m\alpha +m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1}$$ +This expression shows how to find the centre of inertia of two +masses ; $m$ at the extremity of $\alpha$, $m_1$ at that of $\alpha_1$. +Introduce $m_2$ at the extremity of $a_2$, +then the vector of the centre of inertia of the +three is, by a second application of the formula, +$$\frac{(m+m_1)(\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1})+m_2\alpha_2} +{(m+m_1)+m_2}=\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1+m_2\alpha_2}{m+m_1+m_2}$$ +From this it is clear that, for any number of masses, expressed +generally by $m$ at the extremity of the vector $\alpha$, the vector of the +centre of inertia is +$$\beta=\frac{\sum(m\alpha)}{\sum(m)}$$ +This may be written\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\sum m(\alpha-\beta)=0$\\ +Now a $\alpha_1-\beta$ +is the vector of $m_1$ with respect to the centre of inertia. +Hence the theorem, {\sl If the vector of each element of a mass, drawn +from the centre of inertia, be increased in length in proportion to the +mass of the element, the sum of all these vectors is zero.} + +(f) We see at once that the equation + +\noindent +\includegraphics{ps/quat4.ps} + +$$\rho=\alpha t +\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ +where $t$ is an indeterminate +number, and $\alpha$, $\beta$ given vectors, +represents a parabola. +The origin, $O$, is a point on +the curve, $\beta$ is parallel to +the axis, i.e. is the diameter +$OB$ drawn from the origin, +and $\alpha$ is $OA$ the tangent at the origin. In the figure +$$\overline{QP}=\alpha t,\hbox{\hskip 1cm}\overline{OQ}=\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ + +The secant joining the points where $t$ has the values $t$ and $t^{'}$ is +represented by the equation +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\rho&=&\alpha t +\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x\left(\alpha t^{'}+\frac{\beta t^{'2}}{2} +-\alpha t-\frac{\beta t^2}{2}\right)\hbox{\hskip 1cm}(\S 30)\\ +&=&\alpha t+\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x(t^{'}-t)\left\{\alpha+\beta\frac{t^{'}-t}{2} +\right\} +\end{array} +$$ +Write $x$ for $x(t^{'}-t)$ [which may have any value], then put +$t^{'}=t$, and the equation of the tangent at the point ($t$) is +$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x(\alpha+\beta t)$$ +In this put $x = -t$, and we have +$$\rho=-\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ +or the intercept of the tangent on the diameter is equal in length +to the abscissa of the point of contact, but has the opposite +currency. + +Otherwise: the tangent is parallel to the vector $\alpha+\beta t$ or +$\alpha t + \beta t^2$ or $\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+\alpha t+\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$ +or $\overline{OQ}+\overline{OP}$. +But $\overline{TP}=\overline{TO}+\overline{OP}$, +hence $\overline{TO} = \overline{OQ}$. + +(g) Since the equation of any tangent to the parabola is +$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta t^2}{2} + x(\alpha+\beta t)$$ +let us find the tangents which can be drawn from a given point. +Let the vector of the point be +$$\rho=p\alpha + q\beta\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm}(\S 24)$$ +Since the tangent is to pass through this point, we have, as con +ditions to determine $t$ and $x$, +$$t+x=p$$ +$$\frac{t^2}{2}+xt=q$$ +by equating respectively the coefficients of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. + +Hence\hbox{\hskip 3.5cm}$t=p \pm \sqrt{p^2-2q}$ + +Thus, in general, {\sl two} tangents can be drawn from a given point. +These coincide if $$p^2=2q$$ +that is, if the vector of the point from which they are to be drawn +is $$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta=p\alpha+\frac{p^2}{2}\beta$$ +i.e. if the point lies on the parabola. They are imaginary if +$2q > p^2$, that is, if the point be +$$\rho=p\alpha+\left(\frac{p^2}{2}+r\right)\beta$$ +$r$ being {\sl positive}. Such a point is evidently {\sl within} the curve, +as at $R$, where $\overline{OQ}=\frac{p^2}{2}\beta$, +$\overline{QP}=p\alpha$, $\overline{PR} = r\beta$. + +(h) Calling the values of $t$ for the two tangents found in (g) +$t_1$ and $t_2$ respectively, it is obvious that the vector joining the +points of contact is +$$\alpha t_1+\frac{\beta t_1^2}{2}-\alpha t_2 - \frac{\beta t_2^2}{2}$$ +which is parallel to\hbox{\hskip 2cm} +$\alpha+\beta\frac{t_1+t_2}{2}$ +or, by the values of $t_1$ and $t_2$ in (g), +$$\alpha+p\beta$$ +Its direction, therefore, does not depend on $q$. In words, {\sl If pairs of +tangents be drawn to a parabola from points of a diameter produced, +the chords of contact are parallel to the tangent at the vertex of the +diameter.} This is also proved by a former result, for we must have +$\overline{OT}$ for each tangent equal to $\overline{QO}$. + +(i) The equation of the chord of contact, for the point whose vector is +$$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta$$ +is thus\hbox{\hskip 3cm} +$\rho=\alpha t_1+\frac{\beta t_1^2}{2}+y(\alpha+p\beta)$ + +Suppose this to pass always through the point whose vector is +$$\rho=a\alpha+b\beta$$ +Then we must have +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{rcl} +t_1+y & = & a\\ +\frac{t_1^2}{2}+py & = & b +\end{array} +\right\} +$$ +or\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$t_1=p\pm\sqrt{p^2-2p\alpha+2\beta}$ + +Comparing this with the expression in (g), we have +$$ +q = pa - b +$$ +that is, the point from which the tangents are drawn has the vector +a straight line (\S 28 (1)). + +The mere form of this expression contains the proof of the usual +properties of the pole and polar in the parabola ; but, for the sake +of the beginner, we adopt a simpler, though equally general, process. + +Suppose $\alpha = 0$. This merely restricts the pole to the particular +diameter to which we have referred the parabola. Then the pole +is $Q$, where $$\rho = b\beta$$ +and the polar is the line $TU$, for which +$$\rho=-b\beta+p\alpha$$ +{\sl Hence the polar of any point is parallel to the tangent at the +extremity of the diameter on which the point lies, and its intersection +with that diameter is as far beyond the vertex as the pole +is within, and vice versa. } + +(j) As another example let us prove the following theorem. +{\sl If a triangle be inscribed in a parabola, the three points in which +the sides are met by tangents at the angles lie in a straight line. } + +Since $O$ is any point of the curve, we may take it as one corner +of the triangle. Let $t$ and $t_1$ determine the others. Then, if +$\omega_1$,$\omega_2$,$\omega_3$ +represent the vectors of the points of intersection of the +tangents with the sides, we easily find +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\omega_1 & = & \frac{t_1^2}{2t_1-t} +\left(\alpha+\frac{t}{2}\beta\right)\\ +&&\\ +\omega_2 & = & \frac{t^2}{2t-t_1} +\left(\alpha+\frac{t_1}{2}\beta\right)\\ +&&\\ +\omega_3 & = & \frac{tt_1}{t_1+t}\alpha +\end{array} +$$ +These values give +$$\frac{2t_1-t}{t_1}\omega_1 - +\frac{2t-t_1}{t}\omega_2 - +\frac{t_1^2-t^2}{tt_1}\omega_3 = 0$$ +Also +$$\frac{2t_1-t}{t_1} - +\frac{2t-t_1}{t} - +\frac{t_1^2-t^2}{tt_1} = 0$$ +identically. + +Hence, by \S 30, the proposition is proved. + +(k) Other interesting examples of this method of treating +curves will, of course, suggest themselves to the student. Thus +$$\rho = \alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t$$ +or +$$\rho=\alpha x + \beta\sqrt{1-x^2}$$ +represents an ellipse, of which the given vectors $\alpha$ and $\beta$ +are semiconjugate diameters. If $t$ represent time, the radius-vector of this +ellipse traces out equal areas in equal times. [We may anticipate +so far as to write the following : +$$2 \textrm{Area} = T\int V \rho d\rho = TV\alpha\beta.\int dt$$ +which will be easily understood later.] + +Again, +$$\rho=\alpha t+\frac{\beta}{t}\textrm{ or } +\rho=\alpha\tan x + \beta\cot x$$ +evidently represents a hyperbola referred to its asymptotes. [If +$t$ represent time, the sectorial area traced out is proportional to +$\log t$, taken between proper limits.] +Thus, also, the equation +$$\rho = \alpha(t + \sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ +in which $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are of equal lengths, and at right angles to one +another, represents a cycloid. The origin is at the middle point of +the axis ($2\beta$) of the curve. [It may be added that, if t represent +{\sl time}, this equation shows the motion of the tracing point, provided +the generating circle rolls uniformly, revolving at the rate of a +radian per second.] + +When the lengths of $\alpha$, $\beta$ are not equal, this equation gives the +cycloid distorted by elongation of its ordinates or abscissae : {\sl not} a +trochoid. The equation of a trochoid may be written +$$\rho = \alpha(et + \sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ +$e$ being greater or less than 1 as the curve is prolate or curtate. +The lengths of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are still taken as equal. + +But, so far as we have yet gone with the explanation of the +calculus, as we are not prepared to determine the lengths or +inclinations of vectors, we can investigate only a very limited class of +the properties of curves, represented by such equations as those +above written. + +(l) We may now, in extension of the statement in \S 29, make +the obvious remark that +$$\rho = \sum p\alpha$$ +(where, as in \S 23, the number of vectors, $\alpha$, can always be reduced +to {\sl three}, at most) is the equation of a curve in space, if the +numbers $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. are functions of one indeterminate. In such +a case the equation is sometimes written +$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ +But, if $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. be functions of {\sl two} indeterminates, +the locus of the extremity of $\rho$ is a {\sl surface}; +whose equation is sometimes written +$$\rho = \phi(t,u)$$ + +[It may not be superfluous to call the reader's attention to the +fact that, in these equations, $\phi(t)$ or $\phi(t, u)$ +is necessarily a vector expression, since it is equated to a vector, $\rho$.] + +(m) Thus the equation +$$\rho = \alpha\cos t+\beta\sin t + \gamma t\eqno(1)$$ +belongs to a helix, +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +In Axiom we can draw this with the commands: +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} +while +$$\rho = \alpha\cos t+\beta\sin t + \gamma u\eqno(2)$$ +represents a cylinder whose generating lines are parallel to $\gamma$, +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} +and +whose base is the ellipse +$$\rho=\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t$$ +The helix above lies wholly on this cylinder. +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} + +Contrast with (2) the equation +$$\rho = u(\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma)\eqno(3)$$ +which represents a cone of the second degree +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} +made up, in fact, +of all lines drawn from the origin to the ellipse +$$\rho=\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma$$ +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} + +If, however, we write +$$\rho = u(\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma t)$$ +we form the equation of the transcendental cone whose vertex is +at the origin, and on which lies the helix (1). +\boxed{4.6in}{ +\vskip 0.1cm +\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} +tpdhere +} + +In general +$$\rho=u\phi(t)$$ +is the cone whose vertex is the origin, and on which lies the curve +$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ +while\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\rho=\phi(t)+u\alpha$\\ +is a cylinder, with generating lines parallel to $\alpha$, standing on the +same curve as base. + +Again,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma$\\ +with a condition of the form +$$ap^2+bq^2+cr^2=1$$ +belongs to a central surface of the second order, of which +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are the directions of conjugate diameters. If $a$, $b$, $c$ be all positive, +the surface is an ellipsoid. + +{\bf 32}. In Example ($f$) above we performed an operation equivalent +to the differentiation of a vector with reference to a single +{\sl numerical} variable of which it was given as an explicit function. +As this process is of very great use, especially in quaternion +investigations connected with the motion of a particle or point; and as it +will afford us an opportunity of making a preliminary step towards +overcoming the novel difficulties which arise in quaternion differentiation; +we will devote a few sections to a more careful, though +very elementary, exposition of it. + +{\bf 33}. It is a striking circumstance, when we consider the way +in which Newton's original methods in the Differential Calculus +have been decried, to find that Hamilton was {\sl obliged} to employ +them, and not the more modern forms, in order to overcome the +characteristic difficulties of quaternion differentiation. Such a thing +as {\sl a differential coefficient has absolutely no meaning in quaternions}, +except in those special cases in which we are dealing with degraded +quaternions, such as numbers, Cartesian coordinates, \&c. But a +quaternion expression has always a {\sl differential}, which is, simply, +what Newton called a {\sl fluxion}. + +As with the Laws of Motion, the basis of Dynamics, so with the +foundations of the Differential Calculus ; we are gradually coming +to the conclusion that Newton s system is the best after all. + +{\bf 34}. Suppose $\rho$ to be the vector of a curve in space. Then, +generally, $\rho$ may be expressed as the sum of a number of terms, +each of which is a multiple of a constant vector by a function of some +{\sl one} indeterminate; or, as in \S 31 ($l$), +if $P$ be a point on the curve, +$$\overline{OP}=\rho=\phi(t)$$ + +And, similarly, if $Q$ be {\sl any other} point on the curve, +$$\overline{OQ}=\rho_1=\rho+\delta\rho=\phi(t_1)=\phi(t+\delta t)$$ +where $\delta t$ is {\sl any number whatever}. + +The vector-chord $\overline{PQ}$ is therefore, rigorously, +$$\delta p = \rho_1-\rho = \phi(t+\delta t)-\phi t$$ + +{\bf 35}. It is obvious that, in the present case, {\sl because the vectors +involved in $\phi$ are constant, and their numerical multipliers alone vary}, +the expression $\phi(t+\delta t)$ is, by Taylor's Theorem, equivalent to +$$\phi(t)+\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt}\delta t+ +\frac{d^2\phi(t)}{dt^2}\frac{(\delta t)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+\ldots$$ + +Hence, +$$\delta \rho=\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt}\delta t+ +\frac{d^2\phi(t)}{dt^2}\frac{(\delta t)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+\textrm{\&c.}$$ +And we are thus entitled to write, when $\delta t$ has been made +indefinitely small, +$$\textrm{Limit}\left( +\begin{array}{c} +\delta p\\ +\delta t +\end{array} +\right)_{\delta t=0} +=\frac{d\rho}{dt} +=\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt} +=\phi^{'}(t)$$ + +In such a case as this, then, we are permitted to differentiate, +or to form the differential coefficient of, a vector, according to the +ordinary rules of the Differential Calculus. But great additional +insight into the process is gained by applying Newton's method. + +{\bf 36}. Let $\overline{OP}$ be +$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ +and $overline{OQ}_1$ +$$\rho_1=\phi(t+dt)$$ +where $dt$ is any number whatever. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat5.ps} + +The number $t$ may here be taken +as representing {\sl time}, i.e. we may +suppose a point to move along the +curve in such a way that the value +of $t$ for the vector of the point $P$ of +the curve denotes the interval which +has elapsed (since a fixed epoch) when the moving point has +reached the extremity of that vector. If, then, $dt$ represent any +interval, finite or not, we see that +$$\overline{OQ}_1=\phi(t+dt)$$ +will be the vector of the point after the additional interval $dt$. + +But this, in general, gives us little or no information as to the +velocity of the point at $P$. We shall get a better approximation +by halving the interval $dt$, and finding $Q_2$ , +where $\overline{OQ}_2 = \phi(t + \frac{1}{2}dt)$, +as the position of the moving point at that time. Here the vector +virtually described in $\frac{1}{2}dt$ is +$\overline{PQ}_2$ . To find, on this supposition, +the vector described in $dt$, we must double +$\overline{PQ}_2$ , and we find, as a +second approximation to the vector which the moving point would +have described in time $dt$, if it had moved for that period in the +direction and with the velocity it had at $P$, +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\overline{Pq}_2=2\overline{PQ}_2 & = & 2(\overline{OQ}_2-\overline{OP})\\ +& = & 2\{\phi(t+\frac{1}{2}dt)-\phi(t)\} +\end{array} +$$ +The next approximation gives +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\overline{Pq}_3=3\overline{PQ}_3 & = & 3(\overline{OQ}_3-\overline{OP})\\ +& = & 3\{\phi(t+\frac{1}{3}dt)-\phi(t)\} +\end{array} +$$ +And so on, each step evidently leading us nearer the sought truth. +Hence, to find the vector which would have been described in time +$dt$ had the circumstances of the motion at $P$ remained undisturbed, +we must find the value of +$$d\rho=\overline{Pq}=L_{x=\infty}x\left\{\phi\left(t+\frac{1}{x}dt\right) +-\phi(t)\right\}$$ + +We have seen that in this particular case we may use Taylor's +Theorem. We have, therefore, +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +d\rho & = & L_{x=\infty}x +\left\{ +\phi^{'}(t)\frac{1}{x}dt+ +\phi^{''}(t)\frac{1}{x^2}\frac{(dt)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+ +\textrm{\&c} +\right\}\\ +&&\\ +& = & \phi^{'}(t)dt +\end{array} +$$ +And, if we choose, we may now write +$$\frac{d\rho}{dt}=\phi^{'}(t)$$ + +{\bf 37}. But it is to be most particularly remarked that in the +whole of this investigation no regard whatever has been paid to +the magnitude of $dt$. The question which we have now answered +may be put in the form -- {\sl A point describes a given curve in a given +manner. At any point of its path its motion suddenly ceases to be +accelerated. What space will it describe in a definite interval?} As +Hamilton well observes, this is, for a planet or comet, the case +of a 'celestial Atwood's machine'. + +{\bf 38}. If we suppose the variable, in terms of which $\rho$ is expressed, +to be the arc, $s$, of the curve measured from some fixed point, we +find as before +$$d\rho = \phi^{'}(x)ds$$ +From the very nature of the question it is obvious that the length +of $dp$ must in this case be $ds$, so that $\phi^{'}(s)$ +is necessarily a unit-vector. +This remark is of importance, as we shall see later; and +it may therefore be useful to obtain afresh the above result without +any reference to time or velocity. + +{\bf 39}. Following strictly the process of Newton s VIIth Lemma, +let us describe on $Pq_2$ an arc similar to $PQ_2$, and so on. Then +obviously, as the subdivision of $ds$ is carried farther, the new arc +(whose length is always $ds$) more and more nearly (and without +limit) coincides with the line which expresses the corresponding +approximation to $dp$. + +{\bf 40}. As additional examples let us take some well-known +{\sl plane} curves; and first the hyperbola (\S 31 ($k$)) +$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta}{t}$$ +Here +$$d\rho=\left(\alpha-\frac{\beta}{t^2}\right)dt$$ +This shows that the tangent is parallel to the vector +$$\alpha t - \frac{\beta}{t}$$ +In words, {\sl if the vector (from the centre) of a point in a hyperbola +be one diagonal of a parallelogram, two of whose sides coincide with +the asymptotes, the other diagonal is parallel to the tangent at the +point, and cuts off a constant area from the space between the +asymptotes}. (For the sides of this triangular area are $t$ times the +length of $\alpha$, and $1/t$ +times the length of $\beta$, respectively; the angle +between them being constant.) + +Next, take the cycloid, as in \S 31 ($k$), +$$\rho=\alpha(t+\sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ +We have +$$d\rho=\{\alpha(1+\cos t)-\beta\sin t\}dt$$ +At the vertex +$$t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\cos t=1,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\sin t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\textrm{ and }d\rho=2\alpha dt$$ +At a cusp +$$t=\pi,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\cos t=-1,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\sin t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} +\textrm{ and }d\rho = 0$$ + +This indicates that, at the cusp, the tracing point is ( +instantaneously) at rest. To find the direction of the tangent, and the +form of the curve in the vicinity of the cusp, put $t=\pi+\tau$, +where powers of $\tau$ above the second are omitted. We have +$$d\rho=\beta\tau dt + \frac{\alpha\tau^2}{2}dt$$ +so that, at the cusp, the tangent is parallel to $\beta$. By making the +same substitution in the expression for $\rho$, we find that the part of +the curve near the cusp is a semicubical parabola, +$$\rho=\alpha(\pi+\tau^3/6)-\beta(1-\tau^2/2)$$ +or, if the origin be shifted to the cusp ($\rho=\pi\alpha-\beta$), +$$\rho=\alpha\tau^3/6+\beta\tau^2/2$$ + +{\bf 41}. Let us reverse the first of these questions, and {\sl seek the +envelope of a line which cuts off from two fixed axes a triangle of +constant area}. + +If the axes be in the directions of $\alpha$ and $\beta$, the intercepts may +evidently be written $\alpha t$ and $\frac{\beta}{t}$. +Hence the equation of the line is (\S 30) +$$\rho=\alpha t + x\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)$$ + +The condition of envelopment is, obviously, (see Chap. IX.) +$$d\rho = 0$$ +This gives +$0 = \left\{\alpha-x\left(\frac{\beta}{t^2}+\alpha\right)\right\}dt+ +\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)dx$ +%tpdhere -- this should use an asterisk, a number looks like a superscript +\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript +\footnote{ +Here we have opportunity for a remark (very simple indeed, but) +of the utmost importance. {\sl We are not to equate separately to zero the +coefficients of dt and dx}; for we must remember that this equation is +of the form +$$0=p\alpha + q\beta$$ +where $p$ and $q$ are numbers; and that, so long as $\alpha$ and $\beta$ +are actual and non-parallel vectors, the existence of such an equation +requires (\S 24)} + +%tpdhere this is a cheesy use of \leqno. figure out how to do it right. +\noindent +$$\leqno{\textrm{Hence}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}(1-x)dt-tdx=0$$ +%tpdhere -- this text comes out little. +$$\leqno{\textrm{and}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}-\frac{x}{t^2}dt+\frac{dx}{t}=0$$ +From these, at once, $x = \frac{1}{2}$, since $dx$ and $dt$ are indeterminate. +Thus the equation of the envelope is +$$\begin{array}{rcl} +\rho & = & \alpha t + \frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)\\ + & = & \frac{1}{2}\left(\alpha t + \frac{\beta}{t}\right) +\end{array}$$ +the hyperbola as before; $\alpha$, $\beta$ being portions of its asymptotes. + +{\bf 42}. It may assist the student to a thorough comprehension +of the above process, if we put it in a slightly different form. +Thus the equation of the enveloping line may be written +$$\rho=\alpha t(1-x)+\beta\frac{x}{t}$$ +which gives +$$d\rho = 0 = \alpha d\{t(1-x)\}+\beta d\left(\frac{x}{t}\right)$$ +Hence, as $\alpha$ is not parallel to $\beta$, we must have +$$d\{t(1-x)\}=0,\hbox{\hskip 1cm}d\left(\frac{x}{t}\right)=0$$ +and these are, when expanded, the equations we obtained in the +preceding section. + +{\bf 43}. For farther illustration we give a solution not directly +employing the differential calculus. The equations of any two of +the enveloping lines are +$$\rho=\alpha t + x\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)$$ +$$\rho=\alpha t_1 + x_1\left(\frac{\beta}{t_1}-\alpha t_1\right)$$ +$t$ and $t_1$ being given, while $x$ and $x_1$ are indeterminate. + +At the point of intersection of these lines we have (\S 26), +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{rcl} +t(1-x) & = & t_1(1-x_1)\\ +\frac{x}{t} & = & \frac{x_1}{t_1} +\end{array} +\right\}$$ +These give, by eliminating $x_1$ +$$t(1-x)=t_1\left(1-\frac{t_1}{t}x\right)$$ +$$\leqno{\textrm{or}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}x=\frac{t}{t_1+t}$$ +Hence the vector of the point of intersection is +$$\rho=\frac{\alpha tt_1+\beta}{t_1+t}$$ +and thus, for the ultimate intersections, where $L\frac{t_1}{t}=1$, +$$\rho=\frac{1}{2}\left(\alpha t+\frac{\beta}{t}\right) +\textrm{ as before }$$ +COR. If. instead of the {\sl ultimate} intersections, we consider +the intersections of pairs of these lines related by some law, we +obtain useful results. Thus let +$$tt_1 = 1$$ +$$\rho=\frac{\alpha+\beta}{t+\frac{1}{t}}$$ +or the intersection lies in the diagonal of the parallelogram on +$\alpha$, $\beta$. + +If $t_1=mt$, where $m$ is constant, +$$\rho=\frac{mt\alpha+\frac{\beta}{t}}{m+1}$$ +But we have also $x=\frac{1}{m+1}$ + +Hence {\sl the locus of a point which divides in a given ratio a line +cutting off a given area from two fixed axes, is a hyperbola of which +these axes are the asymptotes}. + +If we take either +$$tt_1(t+t_1)=\textrm{constant, or } +\frac{t^2t_1^2}{t+t_1}=\textrm{constant}$$ +the locus is a parabola; and so on. + +It will be excellent practice for the student, at this stage, to +work out in detail a number of similar questions relating to the +envelope of, or the locus of the intersection of selected pairs from, a +series of lines drawn according to a given law. And the process +may easily be extended to planes. Thus, for instance, we may +form the general equation of planes which cut off constant tetrahedra +from the axes of coordinates. Their envelope is a surface of +the third degree whose equation may be written +$$\rho=x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma$$ +$$\leqno{\textrm{where}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}xyz=\alpha^3$$ + +Again, find the locus of the point of intersection of three of +this group of planes, such that +the first intercepts on $\beta$ and $\gamma$, +the second on $\gamma$ and $\alpha$, +the third on $\alpha$ and $\beta$, lengths all equal to one +another, \&c. But we must not loiter with such simple matters as +these. + +{\bf 44}. The reader who is fond of Anharmonic Ratios and Trans +versals will find in the early chapters of Hamilton's {\sl Elements of +Quaternions} an admirable application of the composition of vectors +to these subjects. The Theory of Geometrical Nets, in a plane, +and in space, is there very fully developed; and the method is +shown to include, as particular cases, the corresponding processes of +Grassmann's {\sl Ausdehnungslehre} and M\"obius' {\sl Barycentrische Calcul}. +Some very curious investigations connected with curves and surfaces +of the second and third degrees are also there founded upon the +composition of vectors. + +\section{Examples To Chapter 1.} + +1. The lines which join, towards the same parts, the extremities +of two equal and parallel lines are themselves equal and parallel. +({\sl Euclid}, I. xxxiii.) + +2. Find the vector of the middle point of the line which joins +the middle points of the diagonals of any quadrilateral, plane or +gauche, the vectors of the corners being given; and so prove that +this point is the mean point of the quadrilateral. + +If two opposite sides be divided proportionally, and two new +quadrilaterals be formed by joining the points of division, the mean +points of the three quadrilaterals lie in a straight line. + +Show that the mean point may also be found by bisecting the +line joining the middle points of a pair of opposite sides. + +3. Verify that the property of the coefficients of three vectors +whose extremities are in a line (\S 30) is not interfered with by +altering the origin. + +4. If two triangles $ABC$, $abc$, be so situated in space that $Aa$, +$Bb$, $Cc$ meet in a point, the intersections of $AB$, $ab$, of $BC$, $bc$, +and of $CA$, $ca$, lie in a straight line. + +5. Prove the converse of 4, i.e. if lines be drawn, one in each +of two planes, from any three points in the straight line in which +these planes meet, the two triangles thus formed are sections of a +common pyramid. + +6. If five quadrilaterals be formed by omitting in succession +each of the sides of any pentagon, the lines bisecting the diagonals +of these quadrilaterals meet in a point. (H. Fox Talbot.) + +7. Assuming, as in \S 7, that the operator +$$\cos\theta + \sqrt{-1}\sin\theta$$ +turns any radius of a given circle through an angle $\theta$ in the +positive direction of rotation, without altering its length, deduce +the ordinary formulae for $\cos(A+B)$, $\cos(A-B)$, $\sin(A+B)$, and +$\sin(A-B)$, in terms of sines and cosines of $A$ and $B$. + +8. If two tangents be drawn to a hyperbola, the line joining +the centre with their point of intersection bisects the lines join +ing the points where the tangents meet the asymptotes : and the +secant through the points of contact bisects the intercepts on +the asymptotes. + +9. Any two tangents, limited by the asymptotes, divide each +other proportionally. + +10. If a chord of a hyperbola be one diagonal of a parallelogram +whose sides are parallel to the asymptotes, the other diagonal passes +through the centre. + +11. Given two points $A$ and $B$, and a plane, $C$. Find the +locus of $P$, such that if $AP$ cut $C$ in $Q$, and $BP$ cut $C$ in $R$, +$\overline{QR}$ may be a given vector. + +12. Show that\hbox{\hskip 1cm} $\rho = x^2\alpha+y^2\beta+(x+y)^2\gamma$\\ +is the equation of a cone of the second degree, and that its section +by the plane +$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma}{p+q+r}$$ +is an ellipse which touches, at their middle points, the sides of the +triangle of whose corners $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are the vectors. (Hamilton, {\sl Elements}, p. 96.) + +13. The lines which divide, proportionally, the pairs of opposite +sides of a gauche quadrilateral, are the generating lines of a +hyperbolic paraboloid. ({\sl Ibid}. p. 97.) + +14. Show that\hbox{\hskip 2cm} $\rho=x^3\alpha+y^3\beta+z^3\gamma$\\ +where\hbox{\hskip 4cm} $x+y+z=0$\\ +represents a cone of the third order, and that its section by the plane +$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma}{p+q+r}$$ +is a cubic curve, of which the lines +$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta}{p+q},\textrm{ \&c}$$ +are the asymptotes and the three (real) tangents of inflection. Also +that the mean point of the triangle formed by these lines is a +conjugate point of the curve. Hence that the vector $\alpha+\beta+\gamma$ +is a conjugate ray of the cone. ({\sl Ibid}. p. 96.) + +\section{Products And Quotients of Vectors} + +{\bf 45}. We now come to the consideration of questions in which +the Calculus of Quaternions differs entirely from any previous +mathematical method; and here we shall get an idea of what a +Quaternion is, and whence it derives its name. These questions +are fundamentally involved in the novel use of the symbols of +multiplication and division. And the simplest introduction to +the subject seems to be the consideration of the quotient, or ratio, +of two vectors. + +{\bf 46}. If the given vectors be parallel to each other, we have +already seen (\S 22) that either may be expressed as a numerical +multiple of the other; the multiplier being simply the ratio of +their lengths, taken positively if they have similar currency, +negatively if they run opposite ways. + +{\bf 47}. If they be not parallel, let $\overline{OA}$ and +$\overline{OB}$ be drawn parallel +and equal to them from any point $O$; and the question is reduced +to finding the value of the ratio of two vectors drawn from the +same point. Let us first find {\sl upon how many distinct numbers this +ratio depends}. + +We may suppose $\overline{OA}$ to be changed into +$\overline{OB}$ by the following successive processes. + +1st. Increase or diminish the length of $\overline{OA}$ till it becomes +equal to that of $\overline{OB}$. For this only one number is required, viz. +the ratio of the lengths of the two vectors. As Hamilton remarks, +this is a positive, or rather a {\sl signless}, number. + +2nd. Turn $\overline{OA}$ about $O$, in the common plane of the two +vectors, until its direction coincides with that of $\overline{OB}$, and +(remembering the effect of the first operation) we see that the two vectors +now coincide or become identical. To specify this operation three +numbers are required, viz. two angles (such as node and inclination +in the case of a planet's orbit) to fix the plane in which the rotation +takes place, and {\sl one} angle for the amount of this rotation. + +Thus it appears that the ratio of two vectors, or the multiplier +required to change one vector into another, in general depends upon +{\sl four} distinct numbers, whence the name QUATERNION. + +A quaternion q is thus {\sl defined} as expressing a relation +$$\beta=q\alpha$$ +between two vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$. +By what precedes, the vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, +which serve for the definition of a given quaternion, must be in a +given plane, at a given inclination to each other, and with their +lengths in a given ratio ; but it is to be noticed that they may be +{\sl any} two such vectors. [{\sl Inclination} is understood to include sense, +or currency, of rotation from $\alpha$ to $\beta$.] + +The particular case of perpendicularity of the two vectors, where +their quotient is a vector perpendicular to their plane, is fully +considered below; \S\S 64, 65, 72, \&c. + +{\bf 48}. It is obvious that the operations just described may be +performed, with the same result, in the opposite order, being perfectly +independent of each other. Thus it appears that a quaternion, +considered as the factor or agent which changes one definite vector +into another, may itself be decomposed into two factors of which +the order is immaterial. + +The {\sl stretching} factor, or that which performs the first operation +in \S 47, is called the TENSOR, and is denoted by prefixing $T$ to the +quaternion considered. + +The {\sl turning factor}, or that corresponding to the second operation +in \S 47, is called the VERSOR, and is denoted by the letter $U$ prefixed +to the quaternion. + +{\bf 49}. Thus, if $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, +$\overline{OB} = \beta$, and if $q$ be the quaternion +which changes $\alpha$ to $\beta$, we have +$$\beta = q\alpha$$ +which we may write in the form +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha} = q\textrm{, or }\beta\alpha^{-1}=q$$ +if we agree to {\sl define} that +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\alpha = \beta\alpha^{-1}\alpha = \beta$$ +Here it is to be particularly noticed that we write $q$ +{\sl before} $\alpha$ to +signify that $\alpha$ is multiplied by (or operated on by) $q$, not $q$ +multiplied by $\alpha$. + +This remark is of extreme importance in quaternions, for, as we +shall soon see, the Commutative Law does not generally apply to +the factors of a product. + +We have also, by \S\S 47, 48, +$$q=TqUq=UqTq$$ +where, as before, $Tq$ depends merely on the relative lengths of +$\alpha$ and $\beta$, and $Uq$ depends solely on their directions. + +Thus, if $\alpha_1$ and $\beta_1$ +be vectors of unit length parallel to $\alpha$ and $\beta$ +respectively, +$$T\frac{\beta_1}{\alpha_1} = T\beta_1/T\alpha_1 = 1\textrm{, } +U\frac{\beta_1}{\alpha_1} = U\beta_1/U\alpha_1 = U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$$ +As will soon be shown, when $\alpha$ is perpendicular to $\beta$, +i.e. when the versor of the quotient is quadrantal, it is a unit-vector. + +{\bf 50}. We must now carefully notice that the quaternion which +is the quotient when $\beta$ is divided by $\alpha$ in no way depends upon +the {\sl absolute} lengths, or directions, of these vectors. Its value +will remain unchanged if we substitute for them any other pair +of vectors which + +\noindent +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}(1) have their lengths in the same ratio, + +\noindent +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}(2) have their common plane the same or parallel, + +\noindent +and\hbox{\hskip 1.32cm} (3) make the same angle with each other. + +Thus in the annexed figure + +\includegraphics{ps/quat6.ps} + +$$\frac{O_1B_1}{O_1A_1} = \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}$$ +if, and only if, + +\noindent +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(1)\textrm{ }\frac{O_1B_1}{O_1A_1} = \frac{OB}{OA}$ + +\noindent +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(2)\textrm{ plane }AOB\textrm{ parallel to plane } +A_1O_1B_1$ + +\noindent +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(3)\textrm{ }\angle{}AOB = \angle A_1O_1B_1$ + +[Equality of angles is understood to include +concurrency of rotation. Thus in the annexed +figure the rotation about an axis drawn upwards +from the plane is negative (or clock- wise) from +$OA$ to $OB$, and also from $O_1A_1$ to $O_1B_1$.] + +It thus appears that if +$$\beta = q\alpha\textrm{, }\delta = q\gamma$$ +the vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\delta$ +are parallel to one plane, and may be repre +sented (in a highly extended sense) as {\sl proportional} to one another, +thus: -- +$$\beta : \alpha = \delta : \gamma$$ + +And it is clear from the previous part of this section that this +may be written not only in the form +$$\alpha : \beta = \gamma : \delta$$ +but also in either of the following forms: -- +$$\gamma : \alpha = \delta : \beta$$ +$$\alpha : \gamma = \beta : \delta$$ + +While these proportions are true as equalities of ratios, they +do not usually imply equalities of products. + +Thus, as the first of these was equivalent to the equation +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{\delta}{\gamma}=q\textrm{, or } +\beta\alpha^{-1}=\delta\gamma^{-1}=q$$ +the following three imply separately, (see next section) +$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{\gamma}{\delta}=q^{-1}\textrm{, } +\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\frac{\delta}{\beta}=r\textrm{, } +\frac{\alpha}{\gamma}=\frac{\beta}{\delta}=r^{-1}$$ +or, if we please, +$$\alpha\beta^{-1}=\gamma\delta^{-1}=q^{-1}\textrm{, } +\gamma\alpha^{-1}=\delta\beta^{-1}=r\textrm{, } +\alpha\gamma^{-1}=\beta\delta^{-1}=r^{-1}$$ +where $r$ is a {\sl new} quaternion, which has not necessarily anything +(except its plane), in common with $q$. + +But here great caution is requisite, for we are {\sl not} entitled to +conclude from these that +$$\alpha\delta=\beta\gamma\textrm{, \&c.}$$ + +This point will be fully discussed at a later stage. Meanwhile +we may merely {\sl state} that from +$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{\gamma}{\delta}\textrm{, or } +\frac{\beta}{\alpha} = \frac{\delta}{\gamma}$$ +we are entitled to deduce a number of equivalents such as +$$\alpha\beta^{-1}\delta=\gamma\textrm{, or } +\alpha=\gamma\delta^{-1}\beta\textrm{, or } +\beta^{-1}\delta=\alpha^{-1}\gamma\textrm{, \&c}$$ + +{\bf 51}. The {\sl Reciprocal} of a quaternion $q$ is defined by the +equation +$$\frac{1}{q}q=q^{-1}=1=q\frac{1}{q}=qqe^{-1}$$ +Hence if +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=q\textrm{, or}$$ +$$\beta=q\alpha$$ +we must have +$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{1}{q}=q^{-1}$$ +For this gives +$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\beta=q^{-1}q\alpha$$ +and each member of the equation is evidently equal to $\alpha$. +Or thus: -- +$$\beta=q\alpha$$ +Operate {\sl by} $q^{-1}$ +$$q^{-1}\beta = \alpha$$ +Operate {\sl on} $\beta^{-1}$ +$$q^{-1} = \alpha\beta^{-1} = \frac{\alpha}{\beta}$$ + +Or, we may reason thus: -- since $q$ changes $\overline{OA}$ to +$\overline{OA}$, $q^{-1}$ must +change $\overline{OB}$ to $\overline{OA}$, +and is therefore expressed by $\frac{\alpha}{\beta}$ (\S 49). + +The tensor of the reciprocal of a quaternion is therefore the +reciprocal of the tensor; and the versor differs merely by the +{\sl reversal} of its representative angle. The versor, it must be +remembered, gives the plane and angle of the turning -- it has +nothing to do with the extension. + +[{\sl Remark}. In \S\S 49--51, above, we had such expressions as +$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}$. +We have also met with $\alpha^{-1}\beta$. Cayley suggests that this +also may be written in the ordinary fractional form by employing +the following distinctive notation: -- +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}=\frac{\beta|}{|\alpha}\textrm{, } +\alpha^{-1}\beta=\frac{|\beta}{\alpha|}$$ + +(It might, perhaps, be even simpler to use the {\sl solidus} as +recommended by Stokes, along with an obviously correlative +type:-- thus, +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}=\beta/\alpha\textrm{, } +\alpha^{-1}\beta=\alpha\\ \beta$$ + +I have found such notations occasionally convenient for private +work, but I hesitate to introduce changes unless they are abso +lutely required. See remarks on this point towards the end of the +{\sl Preface to the Second Edition} reprinted above.] + +{\bf 52}. The {\sl Conjugate} of a quaternion $q$, written $Kq$, has the +same tensor, plane, and angle, only the angle is taken the reverse +way; or the versor of the conjugate is the reciprocal of the versor +of the quaternion, or (what comes to the same thing) the versor of +the reciprocal. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat7.ps} + +Thus, if $OA$, $OB$, $OA^{'}$ , lie in one plane, and if +$OA^{'} = OA$, and $\angle A^{'}OB = \angle BOA$, we have +$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}=q$$, +and +$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA^{'}}}=\textrm{ congugate of }q=Kq$$ + +By last section we see that +$$Kq=(Tq)^2q^{-1}$$ +Hence\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$qKq=Kqq=(Tq)^2$ + +This proposition is obvious, if we recollect that +the tensors of $q$ and $Kq$ are equal, and that the +versors are such that either {\sl annuls} the effect of the other; while +the order of their application is indifferent. The joint effect of +these factors is therefore merely to multiply twice over by the +common tensor. + +{\bf 53}. It is evident from the results of \S 50 that, if $\alpha$ and $\beta$ +be of equal length, they may be treated as of unit-length so far as +their quaternion quotient is concerned. This quotient is therefore +a versor (the tensor being unity) and may be represented indifferently +by any one of an infinite number of concurrent arcs of +given length lying on the circumference of a circle, of which the +two vectors are radii. This is of considerable importance in the +proofs which follow. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat8.ps} + +Thus the versor +${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$ may be represented +in magnitude, plane, and currency of rotation (\S 50) +by the arc $AB$, which may in this extended sense be written +${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$. + +And, similarly, the versor +${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB_1}}{\overline{OA_1}}}$ +may be represented by +${\stackrel{\frown}{A_1B_1}}$ +which is equal to (and concurrent with) +${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ if +$$\angle A_1OB_1 = \angle AOB$$ +i.e. if the versors are {\sl equal}, in the quaternion meaning of the +word. + +{\bf 54}. By the aid of this process, when a versor is represented as +an arc of a great circle on the unit-sphere, we can easily prove +that {\sl quaternion multiplication is not generally commutative}. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat9.ps} + +Thus let $q$ be the versor ${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ or +${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$, +where $O$ is the centre of the sphere. + +Take ${\stackrel{\frown}{BC}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$, +(which, it must be remembered, makes the points $A$, $B$, $C$, lie +in one great circle), then $q$ may also be +represented by ${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OC}}{\overline{OB}}}$. + +In the same way any other versor $r$ may be represented by +${\stackrel{\frown}{DB}}$ or ${\stackrel{\frown}{BE}}$ and by +${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OD}}}$ or +${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OE}}{\overline{OB}}}$. + +[The line $OB$ in the figure is definite, and is given by the +intersection of the planes of the two versors.] + +Now $r\overline{OD} = \overline{OB}$, and $q\overline{OB}=\overline{OC}$. + +Hence $qr\overline{OD} = \overline{OC}$, + +or $qr = {\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OC}}{\overline{OD}}}$, +and may therefore be represented by the arc ${\stackrel{\frown}{DC}}$ of +a great circle. + +But $rq$ is easily seen to be represented by the arc +${\stackrel{\frown}{AE}}$. + +For $q\overline{OA}=\overline{OB}$, and $r\overline{OB}=\overline{OE}$, + +whence $rq\overline{OA} = \overline{OE}$. and +$rq = {\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OE}}{\overline{OA}}}$. + +Thus the versors $rq$ and $qr$, though represented by arcs of equal +length, are not generally in the same plane and are therefore +unequal: unless the planes of $q$ and $r$ coincide. + +Remark. We see that we have assumed, or defined, in the +above proof, that $q . r\alpha = qr . \alpha$. +and $r.q\alpha = rq.\alpha$ in the special case +when $q\alpha$, $r\alpha$, $q.r\alpha$ and $r.q\alpha$ are all {\sl vectors}. + +{\bf 55}. Obviously ${\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ is $Kq$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{BD}}$ is $Kr$, and +${\stackrel{\frown}{CD}}$ is $K (qr)$. But +${\stackrel{\frown}{CD}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{BD}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ +as we see by applying both to OC. This gives us +the very important theorem +$$K (qr) = Kr . Kq$$ +i.e. {\sl the conjugate of the product of two versors is the product of their +conjugates in inverted order}. This will, of course, be extended to +any number of factors as soon as we have proved the associative +property of multiplication. (\S 58 below.) + +{\bf 56}. The propositions just proved are, of course, true of quater +nions as well as of versors; for the former involve only an additional +numerical factor which has reference to the length merely, and not +the direction, of a vector (\S 48), and is therefore commutative with +all other factors. + +{\bf 57}. Seeing thus that the commutative law does not in general +hold in the multiplication of quaternions, let us enquire whether +the Associative Law holds generally. That is if $p$, $q$, $r$ be three +quaternions, have we +$$p.qr = pq.r?$$ + +This is, of course, obviously true if $p$, $q$, $r$ be numerical quantities, +or even any of the imaginaries of algebra. But it cannot be con +sidered as a truism for symbols which do not in general give + +$$pq = qp$$ + +We have assumed it, in definition, for the special case when $r$, +$qr$, and $pqr$ are all vectors. (\S 54.) But we are not entitled to +assume any more than is absolutely required to make our +definitions complete. + +{\bf 58}. In the first place we remark that $p$, $q$, and $r$ may be +considered as versors only, and therefore represented by arcs of +great circles on the unit sphere, for their tensors may obviously +(\S 48) be divided out from both sides, being commutative with the +versors. + +Let ${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}=p$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{ED}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CA}} = q$, and +${\stackrel{\frown}{FE}} = r$. + +Join $BC$ and produce the great circle till it meets $EF$ in $H$, and +make ${\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{FE}} = r$, +and ${\stackrel{\frown}{HG}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CB}} =pq$ (\S 54). + +\includegraphics{ps/quat10.ps} + +Join $GK$. Then +${\stackrel{\frown}{KG}} = +{\stackrel{\frown}{HG}} . {\stackrel{\frown}{KH}} = pq . r$. + +Join $FD$ and produce it to meet $AB$ in $M$. Make +$${\stackrel{\frown}{LM}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{FD}} +\textrm{, and }{\stackrel{\frown}{MN}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$$ + +and join $NL$. Then +$${\stackrel{\frown}{LN}}= {\stackrel{\frown}{MN}} . +{\stackrel{\frown}{LM}}=p.qr$$. + +Hence to show that $p . qr = pq . r$ + +all that is requisite is to prove that $LN$, and $KG$, described as +above, are {\sl equal arcs of the same great circle}, since, by the figure, +they have evidently similar currency. This is perhaps most easily +effected by the help of the fundamental properties of the curves +known as {\sl Spherical Conics}. As they are not usually familiar to +students, we make a slight digression for the purpose of proving +these fundamental properties ; after Chasles, by whom and Magnus +they were discovered. An independent proof of the associative +principle will presently be indicated, and in Chapter VIII. we shall +employ quaternions to give an independent proof of the theorems +now to be established. + +{\bf 59}.* DEF. {\sl A spherical conic is the curve of intersection of a +cone of the second degree with a sphere, the vertex of the cone being +the centre of the sphere}. + +LEMMA. If a cone have one series of circular sections, it has +another series, and any two circles belonging to different series lie +on a sphere. This is easily proved as follows. + +Describe a sphere, $A$, cutting the cone in one circular section, +$C$, and in any other point whatever, and let the side $OpP$ of the +cone meet $A$ in $p$, $P$ ; $P$ being a point in $C$. Then $PO.Op$ is +constant, and, therefore, since $P$ lies in a plane, $p$ lies on a sphere, +$a$, passing through $0$. Hence the locus, $c$, of $p$ is a circle, being +the intersection of the two spheres $A$ and $a$. + +Let $OqQ$ be any other side of the cone, $q$ and $Q$ being points in +$c$, $C$ respectively. Then the quadrilateral $qQPp$ is inscribed in a +circle (that in which its plane cuts the sphere $A$) and the exterior + +\includegraphics{ps/quat11.ps} + +angle at $p$ is equal to the interior angle at $Q$. If $OL$, $OM$ be the +lines in which the plane $POQ$ cuts the {\sl cyclic planes} (planes through +$O$ parallel to the two series of circular sections) they are obviously +parallel to $pq$, $QP$, respectively; and therefore + +$$\angle LOp = \angle Opq = \angle OQP = \angle MOQ$$ + +Let any third side, $OrR$, of the cone be drawn, and let the +plane $OPR$ cut the cyclic planes in $0l$, $Om$ respectively. Then, +evidently, +$$\angle lOL = \angle qpr$$ +$$\angle MOm = \angle QPR$$ + +and these angles are independent of the position of the points $p$ +and $P$, if $Q$ and $R$ be fixed points. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat12.ps} + +In the annexed section of the above space-diagram by a sphere +whose centre is $O$, $lL$, $Mm$ are the great circles which represent +the cyclic planes, $PQR$ is the spherical conic which represents the +cone. The point $P$ represents the line $OpP$, and so with the +others. The propositions above may now be stated thus, + +$$\textrm{Arc } PL = \textrm{arc } MQ$$ + +and, if $Q$ and $R$ be fixed, $Mm$ and $lL$ are constant arcs whatever be +the position of $P$. + +{\bf 60}. The application to \S 58 is now obvious. In the figure of +that article we have +$$ +{\stackrel{\frown}{FE}}={\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}\textrm{, } +{\stackrel{\frown}{ED}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}\textrm{, } +{\stackrel{\frown}{HG}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}\textrm{, } +{\stackrel{\frown}{LM}}={\stackrel{\frown}{FD}} +$$ + +Hence $L$, $C$, $G$, $D$ are points of a spherical conic whose cyclic +planes are those of $AB$, $FE$. Hence also $KG$ passes through $L$, +and with $LM$ intercepts on $AB$ an arc equal to +${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$. That is, it +passes through $N$, or $KG$ and $LN$ are arcs of the same great circle : +and they are equal, for $G$ and $L$ are points in the spherical +conic. + +Also, the associative principle holds for any number of +quaternion factors. For, obviously, + +$$qr . st = qrs . t = \textrm{\&c., \&c.,}$$ + +since we may consider $qr$ as a single quaternion, and the above +proof applies directly. + +{\bf 61}. That quaternion addition, and therefore also subtraction, +is commutative, it is easy to show. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat13.ps} + +For if the planes of two quaternions, +$q$ and $r$, intersect in the line $OA$, we +may take any vector $\overline{OA}$ in that line, +and at once find two others, $\overline{OB}$ and +$\overline{OC}$, such that + +$$\overline{OB} = q\overline{OA}$$ +and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{CO} = r\overline{OA}$ + +And\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(q + r)\overline{OA} +\overline{OB}+\overline{OC}=\overline{OC}+\overline{OB}= +(r + q) \overline{OA}$ + +since vector addition is commutative (\S 27). + +Here it is obvious that $(q + r) \overline{OA}$, being the diagonal of the +parallelogram on $\overline{OB}$, $\overline{OC}$, +divides the angle between $OB$ and $OC$ +in a ratio depending solely on the ratio of the lengths of these +lines, i.e. on the ratio of the tensors of $q$ and $r$. This will be useful +to us in the proof of the distributive law, to which we proceed. + +{\bf 62}. Quaternion multiplication, and therefore division, is +distributive. One simple proof of this depends on the possibility, +shortly to be proved, of representing {\sl any} quaternion as a linear +function of three given rectangular unit- vectors. And when the +proposition is thus established, the associative principle may readily +be deduced from it. + +[But Hamilton seems not to have noticed that we may employ +for its proof the properties of Spherical Conies already employed + +\includegraphics{ps/quat14.ps} + +in demonstrating the truth of the associative principle. "For +continuity we give an outline of the proof by this process. + +Let ${\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}$ +represent the versors of $q$ and $r$, and be the great +circle whose plane is that of $p$. + +Then, if we take as operand the vector $\overline{OA}$, it is obvious that +$U (q + r)$ will be represented by some such arc as +${\stackrel{\frown}{DA}}$ where +$B$, $D$, $C$ are in one great circle; +for $(q + r) \overline{OA}$ is in the same plane +as $q\overline{OA}$ and $r\overline{OA}$, +and the relative magnitude of the arcs $BD$ and +$DC$ depends solely on the tensors of $q$ and $r$. Produce $BA$, $DA$, +$CA$ to meet be in $b$, $d$, $c$ respectively, and make + +$${\stackrel{\frown}{Eb}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}, +{\stackrel{\frown}{Fd}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{DA}}, +{\stackrel{\frown}{Gc}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}$$ + +Also make +${\stackrel{\frown}{b\beta}} = +{\stackrel{\frown}{d\delta}} = +{\stackrel{\frown}{c\gamma}}=p$. Then $E$, $F$, $G$, $A$ lie on a spherical +conic of which $BC$ and $bc$ are the cyclic arcs. And, because +${\stackrel{\frown}{b\beta}} = +{\stackrel{\frown}{d\delta}} = +{\stackrel{\frown}{c\gamma}}$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{\beta E}}$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{\delta F}}$, +${\stackrel{\frown}{\gamma G}}$, when produced, meet in a point $H$ +which is also on the spherical conic (\S 59*). Let these arcs meet $BC$ +in $J$, $L$, $K$ respectively. Then we have +$${\stackrel{\frown}{JH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{E\beta}}=pUq$$ +$${\stackrel{\frown}{LH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{F\delta}}=pU(q+r)$$ +$${\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{G\gamma}}=pUr$$ +Also\hbox{\hskip 4cm}${\stackrel{\frown}{LJ}}={\stackrel{\frown}{DB}}$\\ +and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}${\stackrel{\frown}{KL}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CD}}$ + +And, on comparing the portions of the figure bounded respectively +by $HKJ$ and by $ACB$ we see that (when considered with reference +to their effects as factors multiplying +$\overline{OH}$ and $\overline{OA}$ respectively) + +\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$pU(q4+r)$ bears the same relation to $pUq$ and $pUr$\\ +that\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$U(q+r)$ bears to $Uq$ and $Ur$.\\ +But\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$T(q+r)U(q+r)=q+r=TqUq+TrUr$. \\ +Hence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$T(q+r).pU(q+r)=Tq .pUq+Tr.pUr$;\\ +or, since the tensors are mere numbers and commutative with all +other factors, +$$p(q+r)=pq+pr$$ +In a similar manner it may be proved that +$$(q+ )p=qp+rp$$ +And then it follows at once that +$$(p + q) (r + s) = pr + ps + qr + qs$$ +where, by \S 61, the order of the partial products is immaterial.] + +{\bf 63}. By similar processes to those of \S 53 we see that versors, +and therefore also quaternions, are subject to the index-law +$$q^m.q^n=q^{m+n}$$ +at least so long as $m$ and $n$ are positive integers. + +The extension of this property to negative and fractional +exponents must be deferred until we have defined a negative or +fractional power of a quaternion. + +{\bf 64}. We now proceed to the special case of {\sl quadrantal} versors, +from whose properties it is easy to deduce all the foregoing +results of this chapter. It was, in fact, these properties whose +invention by Hamilton in 1843 led almost intuitively to the +establishment of the Quaternion Calculus. We shall content +ourselves at present with an assumption, which will be shown +to lead to consistent results ; but at the end of the chapter we +shall show that no other assumption is possible, following for this +purpose a very curious quasi-metaphysical speculation of Hamilton. + +{\bf 65}. Suppose we have a system of three mutually perpendicular +unit-vectors, drawn from one point, which we may call for shortness +{\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k}. +Suppose also that these are so situated that a positive +(i.e. {\sl left-handed}) rotation through a right angle about {\bf i} +as an axis +brings {\bf j} to coincide with {\bf k}. Then it is obvious that positive +quadrantal rotation about {\bf j} will make {\bf k} coincide with {\bf i}; +and, about {\bf k}, will make {\bf i} coincide with {\bf j}. + +For defniteness we may suppose {\bf i} to be drawn {\sl eastwards}, {\bf j} +{\sl northwards}, and {\bf k} {\sl upwards}. +Then it is obvious that a positive +(left-handed) rotation about the eastward line ({\bf i}) brings the northward +line ({\bf j}) into a vertically upward position ({\bf k}) ; and so of the +others. + +{\bf 66}. Now the operator which turns {\bf j} into {\bf k} is a quadrantal +versor (\S 53) ; and, as its axis is the vector {\bf i}, +we may call it {\sl i}. + +Thus $$\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{{\rm {\bf j}}}= +i\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf k}}=i{\rm {\bf j}}\eqno{(1)}$$ + +Similary we may put$$\frac{{\rm {\bf i}}}{{\rm {\bf k}}}= +j\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf i}}=j{\rm {\bf k}}\eqno{(2)}$$ + +and $$\frac{{\rm {\bf j}}}{{\rm {\bf i}}}= +k\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf j}}=k{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(3)}$$ + +[It may be here noticed, merely to show the symmetry of the +system we arc explaining, that if the three mutually perpendicular +vectors {\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} +be made to revolve about a line equally inclined to +all, so that {\bf i} is brought to coincide with {\bf j}, +{\bf j} will then coincide +with {\bf k}, and {\bf k} with {\bf i}: +and the above equations will still hold good, +only (1) will become (2), (2) will become (3), and (3) will become (1).] + +{\bf 67}. By the results of \S 50 we see that +$$\frac{-{\rm {\bf j}}}{\rm {\bf k}}=\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{\rm {\bf j}}$$ +i.e. a southward unit- vector bears the same ratio to an upward +unit-vector that the latter does to a northward one; and therefore +we have + +Thus $$\frac{-{\rm {\bf j}}}{{\rm {\bf k}}}= +i\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf j}}=i{\rm {\bf k}}\eqno{(4)}$$ + +Similary t$$\frac{-{\rm {\bf k}}}{{\rm {\bf i}}}= +j\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf k}}=j{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(5)}$$ + +and $$\frac{-{\rm {\bf i}}}{{\rm {\bf j}}}= +k\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf i}}=k{\rm {\bf j}}\eqno{(6)}$$ + +{\bf 68}. By (4) and (1) we have + +$$-j = ik = i(ij)\textrm{ (by the assumption in \S 54) }= i^2j$$ + +Hence +$$i^2 = - 1\eqno{(7)}$$ + +Arid in the same way, (5) and (2) give +$$j^2=-1\eqno{(8)}$$ +and (6) and (3) +$$k^2=-1\eqno{(9)}$$ + +Thus, as the directions of {\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} +are perfectly arbitrary, we see that +{\sl the square of every quadrantal versor is negative unity}. + +[Though the following proof is in principle exactly the same as +the foregoing, it may perhaps be of use to the student, in showing +him precisely the nature as well as the simplicity of the step we +have taken. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat15.ps} + +Let $ABA^{'}$ be a semicircle, whose centre +is $0$, and let $OB$ be perpendicular to $AOA^{'}$. + +Then ${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA^{'}}}}=q$ +suppose, is a quadrantal versor, and is evidently equal to +${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OB}}}$ ; + +\S\S 50, 53. Hence + +$$q^2=\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OB}}. +\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}= +\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OA}}=-1]$$ + +{\bf 69}. +Having thus found that the squares of {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} are each +equal to negative unity ; it only remains that we find the values of +their products two and two. For, as we shall see, the result is such +as to show that the value of any other combination whatever of +{\sl i},{\sl j}, {\sl k} +(as factors of a product) may be deduced from the values of +these squares and products. + +Now it is obvious that +$$\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{\rm {\bf -i}}= +\frac{{\rm {\bf i}}}{\rm {\bf k}}=j$$ +(i.e. the versor which turns a westward unit-vector into an upward +one will turn the upward into an eastward unit) ; or +$${\rm {\bf k}}=j({\rm {\bf -i}}) = -j{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(10)}$$ + +Now let us operate on the two equal vectors in (10) by the +same versor, {\sl i}, and we have +$$i{\rm {\bf k}} = i(-j{\rm {\bf i}}) = -j{\rm {\bf i}}$$ +But by (4) and (3) +$$i{\rm {\bf k}}={\rm {\bf -j}}=-k{\rm {\bf i}}$$ + +Comparing these equations, we have +$$-ij{\rm {\bf i}}=-k{\rm {\bf i}}$$ +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{lr} +\textrm{or, \S 54 (end), } &ij=k\\ +\textrm{and symmetry gives}&jk=i\\ + &ki=j\\ +\end{array} +\right\}\eqno{(11)} +$$ + +The meaning of these important equations is very simple ; and +is, in fact, obvious from our construction in \S 54 for the multiplication +of versors ; as we see by the annexed figure, where we must +remember that {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} +are quadrantal versors whose planes are at +right angles, so that the figure represents +a hemisphere divided into quadrantal +triangles. [The arrow-heads indicate the +direction of each vector arc.] + +\includegraphics{ps/quat16.ps} + +Thus, to show that $ij = k$, we have, +$O$ being the centre of the sphere, $N$, $E$, +$S$, $W$ the north, east, south, and west, +and $Z$ the zenith (as in \S 65) ; + +$$j\overline{OW}=\overline{OZ}$$ +whence\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$ij\overline{OW}=i\overline{OZ}= +\overline{OS} = k\overline{OW}$ + +* The negative sign, being a mere numerical factor, is evidently commutative +with $j$ indeed we may, if necessary, easily assure ourselves of the fact +that to turn the negative (or reverse) of a vector through a right +(or indeed any) angle, is the same thing as to turn the vector through +that angle and then reverse it. + +{\bf 70}. But, by the same figure, +$$i\overline{ON}=\overline{OZ}$$ +whence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$ji\overline{ON} =j\overline{OZ} += \overline{OE} = -\overline{OW} = - k\overline{ON}$. + +{\bf 71}. From this it appears that +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{c} +ji = -k\\ +kj = -i\\ +ik = -j\\ +\end{array} +\right\}\eqno{(12)} +$$ +and thus, by comparing (11), +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{c} +ij=-ji=k\\ +jk=-kj=i\\ +ki=-ik=j\\ +\end{array} +\right\}\eqno{(11),(12)} +$$ + +These equations, along with +$$i^2=j^2=k^2=-1\eqno{((7),(8),(9))}$$ +contain essentially the whole of Quaternions. But it is easy to see +that, for the first group, we may substitute the single equation +$$ijk=-1\eqno{(13)}$$ +since from it, by the help of the values of the squares of +{\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k}, all +the other expressions may be deduced. We may consider it proved +in this way, or deduce it afresh from the figure above, thus +$$k\overline{ON}=\overline{OW}$$ +$$jk\overline{ON}=j\overline{OW}=\overline{OZ}$$ +$$ijk\overline{ON}=ij\overline{OW}=i\overline{OZ}= +\overline{OS}=-\overline{ON}$$ + +{\bf 72}. One most important step remains to be made, to wit the +assumption referred to in \S 64. We have treated +{\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} simply as +quadrantal versors ; and +{\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} as unit-vectors at right angles to +each other, and coinciding with the axes of rotation of these versors. +But if we collate and compare the equations just proved we have + +\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} +\vbox{ +\hbox{$i^2=-1$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(7)} +\hbox{${\rm {\bf i}}^2=-1$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(\S 9)}}} + +\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} +\vbox{ +\hbox{$ij=k$\hbox{\hskip 5.3cm}(11)} +\hbox{$i{\rm {\bf j}}={\rm {\bf k}}$\hbox{\hskip 5.3cm}(1)}}} + +\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} +\vbox{ +\hbox{$ji=-k$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(11)} +\hbox{$j{\rm {\bf i}}=-{\rm {\bf k}}$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(1)}}} + +with the other similar groups symmetrically derived from them. + +Now the meanings we have assigned to {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} are quite +independent of, and not inconsistent with, those assigned to +{\rm {\bf i}}, {\rm {\bf j}}, {\rm {\bf k}}. +And it is superfluous to use two sets of characters when one will +suffice. Hence it appears that {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} +may be substituted for {\rm {\bf i}}, {\rm {\bf j}}, {\rm {\bf k}}; +in other words, {\sl a unit-vector when employed as a factor may be +considered as a quadrantal versor whose plane is perpendicular to the +vector}. (Of course it follows that every vector can be treated as the +product of a number and a quadrantal versor.) This is one of the +main elements of the singular simplicity of the quaternion calculus. + +{\bf 73}. Thus {\sl the product, and therefore the quotient, of two +perpendicular vectors is a third vector perpendicular to both}. + +Hence the reciprocal (\S 51) of a vector is a vector which has +the {\sl opposite} direction to that of the vector, arid its length is the +reciprocal of the length of the vector. + +The conjugate (\S 52) of a vector is simply the vector reversed. + +Hence, by \S 52, if $\alpha$ be a vector +$$(Ta)^2 = \alpha K\alpha = \alpha ( - \alpha) = -\alpha{}^2$$ + +{\bf 74}. We may now see that {\sl every versor may be represented by +a power of a unit-vector}. + +For, if $\alpha$ be any vector perpendicular to $i$ (which is +{\sl any} definite unit-vector), +$i\alpha = \beta$ is a vector equal in length to $\alpha$, +but perpendicular to both $i$ and $\alpha$ +$$ +\begin{array}{ccl} +i^2\alpha & = & -\alpha\\ +\i^3\alpha & = & -i\alpha = -\beta\\ +\i^4\alpha & = & -i\beta = -i^2\alpha = \alpha +\end{array} +$$ +Thus, by successive applications of $i$, $\alpha$. +is turned round $i$ as an axis +through successive right angles. Hence it is natural to {\sl define} +$i^m$ {\sl as +a versor which turns any vector perpendicular to i through m right +angles in the positive direction of rotation about i as an axis}. Here +$m$ may have any real value whatever, whole or fractional, for it is +easily seen that analogy leads us to interpret a negative value of $m$ +as corresponding to rotation in the negative direction. + +{\bf 75}. From this again it follows that {\sl any quaternion may be +expressed as a power of a vector}. For the tensor and versor +elements of the vector may be so chosen that, when raised to the +same power, the one may be the tensor and the other the versor +of the given quaternion. The vector must be, of course, perpen +dicular to the plane of the quaternion. + +{\bf 76}. And we now see, as an immediate result of the last two +sections, that the index-law holds with regard to powers of a +quaternion (\S 63). + +{\bf 77}. So far as we have yet considered it, a quaternion has been +regarded as the {\sl product} of a tensor and a versor: we are now to +consider it as a {\sl sum}. The easiest method of so analysing it seems +to be the following. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat17.ps} + +Let ${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$ +represent any quaternion. Draw $BC$ perpendicular to $OA$, +produced if necessary. + +Then, \S 19, $\overline{OB} = \overline{OC} + \overline{CB}$\\ + +But, \S 22, $\overline{OC}=x\overline{OA}$\\ +where $x$ is a number, whose sign is the same +as that of the cosine of $\angle AOB$. + +Also, \S 73, since $CB$ is perpendicular to $OA$, +$$\overline{CB}=\gamma\overline{OA}$$ +where $\gamma$ is a vector perpendicular to $OA$ and $CB$, i.e. to the plane +of the quaternion; and, as the figure is drawn, directed {\sl towards} the +reader. + +Hence +$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}= +\frac{x\overline{OA}+\gamma\overline{OA}}{\overline{OA}}= +x+\gamma$$ + +Thus a quaternion, in general, may be decomposed into the sum +of two parts, one numerical, the other a vector. Hamilton calls +them the SCALAR, and the VECTOR, and denotes them respectively +by the letters $S$ and $V$ prefixed to the expression for the +quaternion. + +{\bf 78}. Hence $q = Sq+ Vq$, and if in the above example +$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}=q$$ +then +$$\overline{OB}=\overline{OC}+\overline{CB}= +Sq.\overline{OA}+Vq.\overline{OA} +\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript +\footnote{ +The points are inserted to show that $S$ and $V$ +apply only to $q$, and not to $q\overline{OA}$.} +$$ + +The equation above gives +$$\overline{OC}=Sq.\overline{OA}$$ +$$\overline{CB}=Vq.\overline{OA}$$ + +{\bf 79}. If, in the last figure, we produce $BC$ to $D$, so as to double +its length, and join $OD$, we have, by \S 52, +$$\frac{\overline{OD}}{\overline{OA}}=Kq=SKq+VKq$$ +so that\hbox{\hskip 1cm} +$\overline{OD}=\overline{OC}+\overline{CD}= +SKq.\overline{OA}+VKq.\overline{OA}$\\ +Hence\hbox{\hskip 3.6cm}$\overline{OC}=SKq.\overline{OA}$\\ +and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{CD}=VKq.\overline{OA}$\\ +Comparing this value of $\overline{OC}$ with that in last section, we find +$$SKq=Sq\eqno{(1)}$$ +or {\sl the scalar of the conjugate of a quaternion is equal to the scalar of +the quaternion}. + +Again, $\overline{CD} = -\overline{CB}$ +by the figure, and the substitution of their values gives +$$VKq=-Vq\eqno{(2)}$$ +or {\sl the vector of the conjugate of a quaternion is the vector of the +quaternion reversed}. + +We may remark that the results of this section are simple con +sequences of the fact that the symbols $S$, $V$, $K$ are commutative +\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript +\footnote{ +It is curious to compare the properties of these quaternion symbols with those +of the Elective Symbols of Logic, as given in BOOLE'S +wonderful treatise on the {\sl Laws of Thought}; and to think that the +same grand science of mathematical analysis, by processes remarkably +similar to each other, reveals to us truths in the science of position +far beyond the powers of the geometer, and truths of deductive +reasoning to which unaided thought could never have led the logician. }. + +Thus\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$SKq = KSq = Sq$, \\ +since the conjugate of a number is the number itself; and +$$VKq=KVq=-Vq (\S 73)$$ + +Again, it is obvious that, +$$\sum{Sq}=S\sum{q},\;\;\;\;\sum{Vq}=V\sum{q}$$ +and thence\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\sum{Kq}=K\sum{q}$ + +{\bf 80}. Since any vector whatever may be represented by +$$xi+yj+zk$$ +where $x$, $y$, $z$ are numbers (or Scalars), +and $i$, $j$, $k$ may be any three +non-coplanar vectors, \S\S 23, 25 though they are usually understood +as representing a rectangular system of unit-vectors and +since any scalar may be denoted by $w$; we may write, for any +quaternion $q$, the expression +$$q=w+xi+yj+zk (\S 78)$$ + +Here we have the essential dependence on four distinct numbers, +from which the quaternion derives its name, exhibited in the most +simple form. + +And now we see at once that an equation such as +$$q^{'}=q$$ +where\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$q^{'}=w^{'}+x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k$\\ +involves, of course, the {\sl four} equations +$$ +w^{'}=w\textrm{, } +x^{'}=x\textrm{, } +y^{'}=y\textrm{, } +z^{'}=z +$$ + +{\bf 81}. We proceed to indicate another mode of proof of the distributive +law of multiplication. + +We have already defined, or assumed (\S 61), that +$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\alpha}$$ +or\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\beta\alpha^{-1}+\gamma\alpha^{-1}= +(\beta+\gamma)\alpha^{-1}$\\ +and have thus been able to understand what is meant by adding +two quaternions. + +But, writing $\alpha$ for $\alpha^{-1}$, +we see that this involves the equality +$$(\beta+\gamma)\alpha = \beta\alpha+\gamma\alpha$$ +from which, by taking the conjugates of both sides, we derive +$$\alpha^{'}(\beta^{'}+\gamma^{'})=\alpha^{'}\beta^{'}+\alpha^{'}\gamma^{'} +(\S 55)$$ +And a combination of these results (putting +$\beta+\gamma$ for $\alpha^{'}$ in the latter, for instance) gives +$$ +\begin{array}{lcr} +(\beta+\gamma)(\beta^{'}+\gamma^{'}) & = & +(\beta+\gamma)\beta^{'}+(\beta+\gamma)\gamma^{'}\\ +& = & \beta\beta^{'}+\gamma\beta^{'}+\beta\gamma^{'}+\gamma\gamma^{'} +\end{array} +$$ +by the former. + +Hence the {\sl distributive principle is true in the multiplication of +vectors}. + +It only remains to show that it is true as to the scalar and +vector parts of a quaternion, and then we shall easily attain the +general proof. + +Now, if $a$ be any scalar, $\alpha$ any vector, and $q$ any quaternion, +$$(a+\alpha)q=aq+\alpha q$$ + +For, if $\beta$ be the vector in which the plane of $q$ is intersected by +a plane perpendicular to $\alpha$, we can find other two vectors, +$\gamma$ and $\delta$ one in each of these planes such that +$$\alpha=\frac{\gamma}{\beta},\;\;\;\;\;q=\frac{\beta}{\delta}$$ +And, of course, $a$ may be written +${\displaystyle\frac{a\beta}{\beta}}$; so that +$$ +\begin{array}{ccl} +(a+\alpha)q & = & \frac{a\beta+\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\delta} +=\frac{a\beta+\gamma}{\delta}\\ +& & \\ +& = & a\frac{\beta}{\delta}+\frac{\gamma}{\delta}= +a\frac{\beta}{\delta}+\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\delta}\\ +& & \\ +& = & aq + \alpha q +\end{array} +$$ +And the conjugate may be written +$$q^{'}(a^{'}+\alpha^{'})=q^{'}a^{'}+q^{'}\alpha^{'} (\S 55)$$ +Hence, generally, +$$(a+\alpha)(b+\beta)=ab+a\beta+b\alpha+\alpha\beta$$ +or, breaking up $a$ and $b$ each into the sum of two scalars, and +$\alpha$, $\beta$ each into the sum of two vectors, \\ +$(a_1+a_2+\alpha_1+\alpha_2)(b_1+b_2+\beta_1+\beta_2)$ +$$=(a_1+a_2)(b_1+b_2) ++(a_1+a_2)(\beta_1+\beta_2) ++(b_1+b_2)(\alpha_1+\alpha_2) ++(\alpha_1+\alpha_2)(\beta_1+\beta_2) +$$ +(by what precedes, all the factors on the right are distributive, so +that we may easily put it in the form) +$$=(a_1+\alpha_1)(b_1+\beta_1) ++(a_1+\alpha_1)(b_2+\beta_2) ++(a_2+\alpha_2)(b_1+\beta_1) ++(a_2+\alpha_2)(b_2+\beta_2) +$$ + +Putting $a_1+\alpha_1=p,\;\;\;$ +$a_2+\alpha_2=q,\;\;\;$ +$b_1+\beta_1=r,\;\;\;$ $b_2+\beta_2=s$,\\ +we have $(p+q)(r+s)=pr+ps+qr+qs$ + +{\bf 82}. Cayley suggests that the laws of quaternion multiplication +may be derived more directly from those of vector multiplication, +supposed to be already established. Thus, let $\alpha$ be the unit vector +perpendicular to the vector parts of $q$ and of $q^{'}$. Then let +$$\rho=q.\alpha,\;\;\;\sigma=-\alpha .q^{'}$$ +as is evidently permissible, and we have +$$p\alpha=q.\alpha\alpha=-q;\;\;\;\alpha\sigma=-\alpha\alpha.q^{'}=q^{'}$$ +so that\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$-q.q^{'}=\rho\alpha.\alpha\sigma=-\rho.\sigma$ + +The student may easily extend this process. + +For variety, we shall now for a time forsake the geometrical +mode of proof we have hitherto adopted, and deduce some of our +next steps from the analytical expression for a quaternion given in +\S 80, and the properties of a rectangular system of unit-vectors as +in \S 71. + +We will commence by proving the result of \S 77 anew. + +{\bf 83}. Let +$$\alpha=xi+yj+zk$$ +$$\beta=x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k$$ +Then, because by \S 71 every product or quotient of $i$, $j$, $k$ is reducible +to one of them or to a number, we are entitled to assume +$$q=\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\omega+\xi i+\eta j +\zeta k$$ +where $\omega$, $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ are numbers. +This is the proposition of \S 80. + +[Of course, with this expression for a quaternion, there is no +necessity for a formal proof of such equations as +$$p + (q+r) = (p + q) + r$$ +where the various sums are to be interpreted as in \S 61. + +All such things become obvious in view of the properties of $i$, $j$ ,$k$.] + +{\bf 84}. But it may be interesting to find $\omega$, $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ +in terms of $x$, $y$, $z$, $x^{'}$, $y^{'}$ , $z^{'}$ . + +We have +$$\beta=q\alpha$$ +or +$$x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k=(\omega+\xi i+\eta j+\zeta k)(xi+yj+zk)$$ +$$=-(\xi x+\eta y+\zeta z) ++(\omega x+\eta z-\zeta y)i ++(\omega y+\zeta x-\xi z)j ++(\omega z+\xi y-\eta x)k +$$ +as we easily see by the expressions for the powers and products of +$i$, $j$, $k$ given in \S 71. But the student must pay particular attention +to the {\sl order} of the factors, else he is certain to make mistakes. + +This (\S 80) resolves itself into the four equations +$$ +\begin{array}{lllllllll} +0 & = & & & \xi x & + & \eta y & + & \zeta z\\ +x^{'} & = & \omega x & & & + & \eta z & - & \zeta y\\ +y^{'} & = & \omega y & - & \xi z & & & + & \zeta x\\ +z^{'} & = & \omega z & + & \xi y & - & \eta x\\ +\end{array} +$$ +The three last equations give +$$xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}=\omega(x^2+y^2+z^2)$$ +which determines $\omega$. + +Also we have, from the same three, by the help of the first, +$$\xi x^{'}+\eta y^{'}+\zeta z^{'} = 0$$ +which, combined with the first, gives +$$\frac{\xi}{yz^{'}-zy^{'}} +=\frac{\eta}{zx^{'}-xz^{'}} +=\frac{\zeta}{xy^{'}-yx^{'}} +$$ +and the common value of these three fractions is then easily seen +to be +$$\frac{1}{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$ + +It is easy enough to interpret these expressions by means of +ordinary coordinate geometry : but a much simpler process will +be furnished by quaternions themselves in the next chapter, and, in +giving it, we shall refer back to this section. + +{\bf 85}. The associative law of multiplication is now to be proved +by means of the distributive (\S 81). We leave the proof to the +student. He has merely to multiply together the factors +$$w+xi+yj+zk,\;\;\;\; +w+x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } +w^{''} + x^{''}i + y^{''}j + z^{''}k$$ + +as follows : + +First, multiply the third factor by the second, and then multiply +the product by the first; next, multiply the second factor by the +first and employ the product to multiply the third: always remembering +that the multiplier in any product is placed {\sl before} the +multiplicand. He will find the scalar parts and the coefficients of +$i$, $j$, $k$, in these products, respectively equal, each to each. + +{\bf 86}. +With the same expressions for $\alpha$, $\beta$, as in section 83, we +have +$$\alpha\beta=(xi+yj+zk)(x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k)$$ +$$\;\;=-(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}) ++(yz^{'}-zy^{'})i ++(zx^{'}-xz^{'})j ++(xy^{'}-yx^{'})k +$$ + +But we have also +$$\beta\alpha= +-(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}) +-(yz^{'}-zy^{'})i +-(zx^{'}-xz^{'})j +-(xy^{'}-yx^{'})k +$$ + +The only difference is in the sign of the vector parts. Hence +$$S\alpha\beta=S\beta\alpha\eqno{(1)}$$ +$$V\alpha\beta=-V\beta\alpha\eqno{(2)}$$ +$$\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha=2S\alpha\beta\eqno{(3)}$$ +$$\alpha\beta-\beta\alpha=2V\alpha\beta\eqno{(4)}$$ +$$\alpha\beta=K.\beta\alpha\eqno{(5)}$$ + +{\bf 87}. If $\alpha=\beta$ we have of course (\S 25) +$$x=x^{'},\;\;\;\;y=y^{'},\;\;\;\;z=z^{'}$$ +and the formulae of last section become +$$\alpha\beta=\beta\alpha=\alpha^2=-(x^2+y^2+z^2)$$ +which was anticipated in \S 73, where we proved the formula +$$(T\alpha)^2=-\alpha^2$$ +and also, to a certain extent, in \S 25. + +{\bf 88}. Now let $q$ and $r$ be any quaternions, then +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +S.qr & = & S.(Sq+Vq)(Sr+Vr)\\ + & = & S.(SqSr+Sr.Vq+Sq.Vr+VqVr)\\ + & = & SqSr+S.VqVr +\end{array} +$$ +since the two middle terms are vectors. +Similarly, +$$S.rq=SrSq+S.VrVq$$ +Hence, since by (1) of \S 86 we have +$$S.VqVr=S.VrVq$$ +we see that +$$S.qr=S.rq\eqno{(1)}$$ +a formula of considerable importance. + +It may easily be extended to any number of quaternions, +because, $r$ being arbitrary, we may put for it $rs$. Thus we have +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +S.qrs & = & S.rsq\\ +& = & S.sqr +\end{array} +$$ +by a second application of the process. In words, we have the +theorem {\sl the scalar of the product of any number of given +quaternions depends only upon the cyclical order in which they are +arranged}. + +{\bf 89}. An important case is that of three factors, each a vector. +The formula then becomes +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=S.\beta\gamma\alpha=S.\gamma\alpha\beta$$ +But +$$\begin{array}{rcll} +S.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & S\alpha(S\beta\gamma+V\beta\gamma) &\\ + & = & S\alpha V\beta\gamma & \textrm{since }\alpha S\beta\gamma +\textrm{ is a vector}\\ + & = & -S\alpha V\gamma\beta & \textrm{by (2) of \S 86}\\ + & = & -S\alpha(S\gamma\beta+V\gamma\beta) &\\ + & = & -S.\alpha\gamma\beta +\end{array} +$$ +Hence {\sl the scalar of the product of three vectors changes sign when +the cyclical order is altered.} + +By the results of \S\S 55, 73, 79 we see that, for any number +of vectors, we have +$$K.\alpha\beta\gamma\ldots\phi\chi= +\pm\chi\phi\ldots\gamma\beta\alpha$$ +(the positive sign belonging to the product of an even number of +vectors) so that +$$S.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi=\pm S.\chi\phi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ + +Similarly +$$V.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi=\mp V.\chi\phi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ +Thus we may generalize (3) and (4) of \S 86 into +$$2S.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi= +\alpha\beta\ldots\chi\phi\pm\phi\chi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ +$$2V.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi= +\alpha\beta\ldots\chi\phi\mp\phi\chi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ +the upper sign still being used when the -number of factors is +even. + +Other curious propositions connected with this will be given +later (some, indeed, will be found in the Examples appended to +this chapter), as we wish to develop the really fundamental +formulae in as compact a form as possible. + +{\bf 90}. By (4) of \S 86, +$$2V\beta\gamma=\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta$$ +Hence +$$2V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=V.\alpha(\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta)$$ +(by multiplying both by $\alpha$, and taking the vector parts of each side) +$$=V(\alpha\beta\gamma+\beta\alpha\gamma-\beta\alpha\gamma-\alpha\gamma\beta)$$ +(by introducing the null term $\beta\alpha\gamma-\beta\alpha\gamma$). + +\noindent +That is +$$2V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=V.(\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha)\gamma +-V(\beta S\alpha\gamma+\beta V\alpha\gamma+S\alpha\gamma .\beta+ +V\alpha\gamma .\beta$$ +$$=V.(2S\alpha\beta)\gamma-2V\beta S\alpha\gamma$$ +(if we notice that $V(V\alpha\gamma .\beta)=-V.\beta V\alpha\gamma$ +by (2) of \S 86). +Hence +$$V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=\gamma S\alpha\beta-\beta S\gamma\alpha\eqno{(1)}$$ +a formula of constant occurrence. + +Adding $\alpha S\beta\gamma$ to both sides, we get another most valuable +formula +$$V.\alpha\beta\gamma +=\alpha S\beta\gamma +-\beta S\gamma\alpha ++\gamma S\alpha\beta\eqno{(2)} +$$ +and the form of this shows that we may interchange $\gamma$ and $\alpha$ +without altering the right-hand member. This gives +$$V.\alpha\beta\gamma = V.\gamma\beta\alpha$$ +a formula which may be greatly extended. (See \S89, above.) + +Another simple mode of establishing (2) is as follows : +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +K.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & -\gamma\beta\alpha\\ +\therefore 2V.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & +\alpha\beta\gamma-K.\alpha\beta\gamma\textrm{ (by \S 79(2))}\\ +& = & \alpha\beta\gamma + \gamma\beta\alpha\\ +& = & \alpha(\beta\gamma+\gamma\beta) +-(\alpha\gamma+\gamma\alpha)\beta ++\gamma(\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha)\\ +& = & 2\alpha S\beta\gamma-2\beta S\alpha\gamma+2\gamma S\alpha\beta +\end{array} +$$ + +{\bf 91}. We have also +$$VV\alpha\beta V\gamma\delta = -VV\gamma\delta V\alpha\beta\;\;\;\; +\textrm{ by (2) of \S 86}$$ +$$=\delta S\gamma V\alpha\beta-\gamma S\delta V\alpha\beta +=\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma-\gamma S.\alpha\beta\delta$$ +$$=-\beta S\alpha V\gamma\delta+\alpha S\beta V\gamma\delta +=-\beta S.\alpha\gamma\delta+\alpha S.\beta\gamma\delta$$ +all of these being arrived at by the help of \S 90 (1) and of \S 89; +and by treating alternately $V\alpha\beta$ and +$V\gamma\delta$ as {\sl simple} vectors. + +Equating two of these values, we have +$$\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma +=\alpha S.\beta\gamma\delta ++\beta S.\gamma\alpha\delta ++\gamma S.\alpha\beta\delta\eqno{(3} +$$ +a very useful formula, expressing any vector whatever in terms +of three given vectors. [This, of course, presupposes that +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are not coplanar, \S 23. In fact, if they be coplanar, the factor +$S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ vanishes, +and thus (3) does not give an expression for $\delta$. +This will be shown in \S 101 below.] + +{\bf 92}. That such an expression as (3) is possible we knew already +by \S 23. For variety we may seek another expression of a similar +character, by a process which differs entirely from that employed +in last section. + +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +being any three non-coplanar vectors, we may derive +from them three others $V\alpha\beta$, $V\beta\gamma$, $V\gamma\alpha$ +and, as these will not be +coplanar, any other vector $\delta$ may be expressed as the sum of the +three, each multiplied by some scalar. It is required to find this +expression for $\delta$. + +Let +$$\delta=xV\alpha\beta+yV\beta\gamma+zV\gamma\alpha$$ +Then +$$S\gamma\delta=xS.\gamma\alpha\beta =xS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +the terms in y and z going out, because +$$S\gamma V\beta\gamma = S.\gamma\beta\gamma=S\beta\gamma^2 +=\gamma^2 S\beta=0$$ +for $\gamma^2$ is (\S 73) a number. + +Similarly +$$S\beta\delta=zS.\beta\gamma\alpha=zS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +and +$$S\alpha\delta=qS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +Thus +$$\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma=V\alpha\beta S\gamma\delta ++V\beta\gamma S\alpha\delta ++V\gamma\alpha S\beta\delta\eqno{(4)} +$$ + +{\bf 93}. We conclude the chapter by showing (as promised in \S 64) +that the assumption that the product of two parallel vectors is +a number, and the product of two perpendicular vectors a third +vector perpendicular to both, is not only useful and convenient, +but absolutely inevitable, if our system is to deal indifferently with +all directions in space. We abridge Hamilton s reasoning. + +Suppose that there is no direction in space pre-eminent, and +that the product of two vectors is something which has quantity, +so as to vary in amount if the factors are changed, and to have its +sign changed if that of one of them is reversed ; if the vectors be +parallel, their product cannot be, in whole or in part, a vector +{\sl inclined} to them, for there is nothing to determine the direction in +which it must lie. It cannot be a vector {\sl parallel} to them; for by +changing the signs of both factors the product is unchanged, +whereas, as the whole system has been reversed, the product +vector ought to have been reversed. Hence it must be a number. +Again, the product of two perpendicular vectors cannot be wholly +or partly a number, because on inverting one of them the sign of +that number ought to change; but inverting one of them is simply +equivalent to a rotation through two right angles about the other, +and (from the symmetry of space) ought to leave the number +unchanged. Hence the product of two perpendicular vectors must +be a vector, and a simple extension of the same reasoning shows +that it must be perpendicular to each of the factors. It is easy to +carry this farther, but enough has been said to show the character +of the reasoning. + +\section{Examples To Chapter 2.} + +{\bf 1}. It is obvious from the properties of polar triangles that any +mode of representing versors by the {\sl sides} of a spherical triangle +must have an equivalent statement in which they are represented +by {\sl angles} in the polar triangle. + +Show directly that the product of two versors represented +by two angles of a spherical triangle is a third versor represented +by the {\sl supplement} of the remaining angle of the triangle ; and +determine the rule which connects the {\sl directions} in which these +angles are to be measured. + +{\bf 2}. Hence derive another proof that we have not generally +$$pq=qp$$ + +{\bf 3}. Hence show that the proof of the associative principle, +\S 57, may be made to depend upon the fact that if from any point +of the sphere tangent arcs be drawn to a spherical conic, and also +arcs to the foci, the inclination of either tangent arc to one of the +focal arcs is equal to that of the other tangent arc to the other +focal arc. + +{\bf 4}. Prove the formulae +$$2S.\alpha\beta\gamma = \alpha\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta\alpha$$ +$$2V.\alpha\beta\gamma = \alpha\beta\gamma+\gamma\beta\alpha$$ + +{\bf 5}. Show that, whatever odd number of vectors be represented +by $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ \&c., we have always +$$ +V.\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon=V.\epsilon\delta\gamma\beta\alpha +$$ +$$ +V.\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon\zeta\eta +=V.\eta\zeta\epsilon\delta\gamma\beta\alpha,\textrm{ \&c.} +$$ + +{\bf 6}. Show that +$$ +S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha=-(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2 +$$ +$$ +V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= +V\alpha\beta(\gamma^2S\alpha\beta-S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha)+\ldots +$$ +and +$$ +V(V\alpha\beta V.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha) +=(\beta S\alpha\gamma-\alpha S\beta\gamma)S.\alpha\beta\gamma +$$ + +{\bf 7}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be any vectors at right angles to each other, show that +$$ +(\alpha^3+\beta^3+\gamma^3)S.\alpha\beta\gamma +=\alpha^4V\beta\gamma ++\beta^4V\gamma\alpha ++\gamma^4V\alpha\beta +$$ +$$ +(\alpha^{2n-1}+\beta^{2n-1}+\gamma^{2n-1})S.\alpha\beta\gamma +=\alpha^{2n}V\beta\gamma ++\beta^{2n}V\gamma\alpha ++\gamma^{2n}V\alpha\beta +$$ + +{\bf 8}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be non-coplanar vectors, find the relations among +the six scalars, $x$, $y$, $z$ and $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ +which are implied in the +equation +$$ +x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma +=\xi V\beta\gamma+\eta V\gamma\alpha+\zeta V\alpha\beta +$$ + +{\bf 9}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be any three non-coplanar vectors, express any +fourth vector, $\delta$, as a linear function of each of the following sets of +three derived vectors. +$$ +V.\gamma\alpha\beta,\;\;\;\;V.\alpha\beta\gamma,\;\;\;\; +V.\beta\gamma\alpha +$$ +and +$$ +V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha,\;\;\;\; +V.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta,\;\;\;\; +V.V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma +$$ + +{\bf 10}. Eliminate $\rho$ from the equations +$$ +S\alpha\rho=a,\;\;\;\; +S\beta\rho=b,\;\;\;\; +S\gamma\rho=c,\;\;\;\; +S\delta\rho=d +$$ +where $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\delta$ +are vectors, and $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ scalars. + +{\bf 11}. In any quadrilateral, plane or gauche, the sum of the +squares of the diagonals is double the sum of the squares of the +lines joining the middle points of opposite sides. + +\section{Interpretations And Transformations} + +{\bf 94}. Among the most useful characteristics of the Calculus of +Quaternions, the ease of interpreting its formulae geometrically, +and the extraordinary variety of transformations of which the +simplest expressions are susceptible, deserve a prominent place. +We devote this Chapter to some of the more simple of these, +together with a few of somewhat more complex character but of +constant occurrence in geometrical and physical investigations. +Others will appear in every succeeding Chapter. It is here, +perhaps, that the student is likely to feel most strongly the +peculiar difficulties of the new Calculus. But on that very account +he should endeavour to master them, for the variety of forms +which any one formula may assume, though puzzling to the +beginner, is of the utmost advantage to the advanced student, not +alone as aiding him in the solution of complex questions, but +as affording an invaluable mental discipline. + +{\bf 95}. If we refer again to the figure of \S 77 we see that +$$OC=OB\cos AOB$$ +$$CB=OB \sin AOB$$ +Hence if +$$\overline{AB}=\alpha,\;\;\;\; +\overline{OB}=\beta,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } +\angle AOB=\theta +$$ +we have +$$OB=T\beta,\;\;\;\;OA=T\alpha$$ +$$OC=T\beta\cos\theta,\;\;\;\;CB=T\beta\sin\theta +$$ +Hence +$$S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= +\frac{OC}{OA}= +\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\cos\theta +$$ +Similarly, +$$ +TV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{CB}{OA}=\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\sin\theta +$$ + +Hence, if $\eta$ be a unit-vector perpendicular to +$\alpha$ and $\beta$, and such +that positive rotation about it, through the angle $\theta$, turns $\alpha$ +towards $\beta$ or +$$ +\eta= +\frac{U\overline{CB}}{U\overline{OA}}= +U\frac{\overline{CB}}{\overline{OA}}= +UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha} +$$ +we have +$$ +V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= +\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\sin\theta .\eta\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{ (See, again, \S 84)} +$$ + +{\bf 96}. In the same way, or by putting +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\alpha\beta & = & S\alpha\beta+V\alpha\beta\\ + & = & S\beta\alpha - V\beta\alpha\\ + & = & \alpha^2\left(S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}-V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right)\\ + & = & T\alpha^2\left(-S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right) +\end{array} +$$ +we may show that +$$S\alpha\beta=-T\alpha T\beta\cos\theta$$ +$$TV\alpha\beta = T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta$$ +and +$$V\alpha\beta=T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta . \eta$$ +where +$$\eta=UV\alpha\beta = U(-V\beta\alpha)=UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$$ + +Thus {\sl the scalar of the product of two vectors is the continued +product of their tensors and of the cosine of the supplement of the +contained angle}. + +{\sl The tensor of the vector of the product of two vectors is the con +tinued product of their tensors and the sine of the contained angle ; +and the versor of the same is a unit-vector perpendicular to both, +and such that the rotation about it from the first vector (i. e. the +multiplier) to the second is left-handed or positive}. + +{\sl Hence also $TV\alpha\beta$ +is double the area of the triangle two of whose +sides are $\alpha$, $\beta$.} + +{\bf 97}. (a) In any plane triangle $ABC$ we have +$$\overline{AC}=\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}$$ +Hence, +$$ +\overline{AC}^2=S.\overline{AC}\overline{AC}= +S.\overline{AC}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}) +$$ + +With the usual notation for a plane triangle the interpretation +of this formula is +$$b^2 = -bc\cos A-ab\cos C$$ +or +$$b=c\cos C+c\cos A$$ + +(b) Again we have, obviously, +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +V.\overline{AB}\;\overline{AC}&=&V.\overline{AB}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC})\\ +&=&V.\overline{AB}\;\overline{BC} +\end{array} +$$ +or +$$cb\sin A = ca\sin B$$ +whence +$$\frac{\sin A}{a}=\frac{\sin B}{b}=\frac{\sin C}{c}$$ + +These are truths, but not truisms, as we might have been led +to fancy from the excessive simplicity of the process employed. + +{\bf 98}. +From \S 96 it follows that, if $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be both actual (i. e. +real and non-evanescent) vectors, the equation +$$S\alpha\beta = 0$$ + + +shows that $\cos\theta=0$, or that +$\alpha$ is {\sl perpendicular} to $\beta$. And, in fact, +we know already that the product of two perpendicular vectors is +a vector. + +Again if +$$V\alpha\beta=0$$ +we must have $\sin\theta=0$, or +$\alpha$ is {\sl parallel} to $\beta$. We know already +that the product of two parallel vectors is a scalar. + +Hence we see that +$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ +is equivalent to +$$\alpha=V\gamma\beta$$ +where $\gamma$ is an undetermined vector; and that +$$V\alpha\beta=0$$ +is equivalent to +$$\alpha=x\beta$$ +where $x$ is an undetermined scalar. + +{\bf 99}. If we write, as in \S\S 83, 84, +$$\alpha=ix+jy+kz$$ +$$\beta=ix^{'}+jy^{'}+kz^{'}$$ +we have, at once, by \S 86, +$$\begin{array}{rcl} +S\alpha\beta&=&-xx^{'}-yy^{'}-zz^{'}\\ +&=&-rr^{'}\left( +\frac{x}{r}\frac{x^{'}}{r^{'}}+ +\frac{y}{r}\frac{y^{'}}{r^{'}}+ +\frac{z}{r}\frac{z^{'}}{r^{'}} +\right) +\end{array} +$$ +where +$$ +r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2},\;\;\;\; +r^{'}=\sqrt{x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2}} +$$ +Also +$$ +V\alpha\beta=rr^{'}\left\{ +\frac{yz^{'}-zy^{'}}{rr^{'}}i+ +\frac{zx^{'}-xz^{'}}{rr^{'}}j+ +\frac{xy^{'}=yx^{'}}{rr^{'}}k +\right\} +$$ + +These express in Cartesian coordinates the propositions we have +just proved. In commencing the subject it may perhaps assist +the student to see these more familiar forms for the quaternion +expressions ; and he will doubtless be induced by their appearance +to prosecute the subject, since he cannot fail even at this stage to +see how much more simple the quaternion expressions are than +those to which he has been accustomed. + +{\bf 100}. The expression +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +may be written +$$SV(\alpha\beta)\gamma$$ +because the quaternion $\alpha\beta\gamma$ may be broken up into +$$S(\alpha\beta)\gamma+V(\alpha\beta)\gamma$$ +of which the first term is a vector. + +But, by \S 96, +$$SV(\alpha\beta)\gamma=T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta S\eta\gamma$$ +Here $T\eta=1$, let $\phi$ be the angle between $\eta$ and $\gamma$, +then finally +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma = -T\alpha T\beta T\gamma\sin\theta\cos\phi$$ + +But as $\eta$ is perpendicular to $\alpha$ and $\beta$, +$T\gamma\cos\phi$ is the length of the +perpendicular from the extremity of $\gamma$ +upon the plane of $\alpha$, $\beta$. And +as the product of the other three factors is (\S 96) the area of the +parallelogram two of whose sides are $\alpha$, $\beta$, we see that the +magnitude of $S.\alpha\beta\gamma$, +independent of its sign, is {\sl the volume of the +parallelepiped of which three coordinate edges +are $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$}; +or six times the volume of the pyramid which has +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ for edges. + +{\bf 101}. Hence the equation +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=0$$ +if we suppose $\alpha\beta\gamma$ to be actual vectors, shows either that +$$\sin\theta=0$$ +or +$$\cos\phi=0$$ +i. e. {\sl two of the three vectors are parallel}, +or {\sl all three are parallel to one plane}. + +This is consistent with previous results, for if $\gamma=p\beta$ we have +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=pS.\alpha\beta^2=0$$ +and, if $\gamma$ be coplanar with $\alpha$,$\beta$, we have +$\gamma=p\alpha+q\beta$ and +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=S.\alpha\beta(p\alpha+q\beta)=0$$ + +{\bf 102}. +This property of the expression $S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ prepares us to +find that it is a determinant. And, in fact, if we take $\alpha$,$\beta$ as in +\S 83, and in addition +$$\gamma=ix^{''}+jy^{''}+kz^{''}$$ +we have at once +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=-x^{''}(yz^{'}-zy^{'})- +y^{''}(zx^{'}-xz^{'})- +z^{''}(xy^{'}-yx^{'})$$ +$$ +=-\left\vert +\begin{array}{ccc} +x & y & z\\ +x^{'} & y^{'} & z^{'}\\ +x^{''}&y^{''}&z^{''} +\end{array} +\right\vert +$$ +The determinant changes sign if we make any two rows change +places. This is the proposition we met with before (\S 89) in the +form +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=-S.\beta\alpha\gamma=S.\beta\gamma\alpha +\textrm{, \&c}$$ + +If we take three new vectors +$$\alpha_1=ix+jx^{'}+kx^{''}$$ +$$\beta_1 =iy+jy^{'}+ky^{''}$$ +$$\gamma_1=iz+jz^{'}+kz^{''}$$ +we thus see that they are coplanar if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ are so. +That is, if +$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=0$$ +then +$$S.\alpha_1\beta_1\gamma_1=0$$ + +{\bf 103}. We have, by \S 52, +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +(Tq)^2 &=&qKq = (Sq+Vq)(Sq-Vq)\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 79)}\\ +&=&(Sq)^2-(Vq)^2\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{by algebra}\\ +&=&(Sq)^2+(TVq)^2\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 73)}\\ +\end{array} +$$ +If $q=\alpha\beta$, we have $Kq = \beta\alpha$, and the formula becomes +$$\alpha\beta . \beta\alpha = \alpha^2\beta^2= +(S\alpha\beta)^2-(V\alpha\beta)^2 +$$ + +In Cartesian coordinates this is\\ +\vskip 0.1cm +$(x^2+y^2+z^z)(x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2})$ +$$ +=(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'})^2+(yz^{'}-zy^{'})^2+ +(zx^{'}-xz^{'})^2+(xy^{'}-yx^{'})^2 +$$ +More generally we have +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +(T(qr))^2&=&(Tq)^2(Tr)^2\\ +&=&(S.qr)^2-(V.qr)^2 +\end{array} +$$ +If we write +$$q=w+\alpha=w+ix+jy+kz$$ +$$r=w^{'}+\beta=w^{'}+ix^{'}+jy^{'}+kz^{'}$$ +this becomes +$$(w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2)(w^{'2}+x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2})$$ +$$=(ww^{'}-xx^{'}-yy^{'}-zz^{'})^2+(wx^{'}+w^{'}x+yz^{'}-zy^{'})^2$$ +$$=(xy^{'}+w^{'}y+zx^{'}-xz^{'})^2+(wz^{'}+w^{'}z+xy^{'}-yx^{'})^2$$ +a formula of algebra due to Euler. + +{\bf 104}. We have, of course, by multiplication, +$$ +(\alpha+\beta)^2= +\alpha^2+\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha+\beta^2= +\alpha^2+2S\alpha\beta+\beta^2\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 86 (3))} +$$ +Translating into the usual notation of plane trigonometry, this +becomes +$$c^2=a^2-2ab\cos C+b^2$$ +the common formula. + +Again, +$$ +V.(\alpha+\beta)(\alpha-\beta)= +-V\alpha\beta+V\beta\alpha= +-2V\alpha\beta\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 86 (2)} +$$ +Taking tensors of both sides we have the theorem, {\sl the parallelogram +whose sides are parallel and equal to the diagonals of a +given parallelogram, has double its area} (\S 96). + +Also +$$S(\alpha+\beta)(\alpha-\beta)=\alpha^2-\beta^2$$ +and vanishes only when $\alpha^2=\beta^2$, +or $T\alpha=T\beta$; that is, {\sl the diagonals +of a parallelogram are at right angles to one another, when, and +only when, it is a rhombus}. + +Later it will be shown that this contains a proof that the angle +in a semicircle is a right angle. + +{\bf 105}. The expression\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\rho=\alpha\beta\alpha^{-1}$\\ +obviously denotes a vector whose tensor is equal to that of $\beta$. + +But we have\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$S.\beta\alpha\rho=0$\\ +so that $\rho$ is in the plane of $\alpha$, $\beta$ + +Also we have\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$S\alpha\rho=S\alpha\beta$\\ +so that $\beta$ and $\rho$ make equal angles with $\alpha$, +evidently on opposite +sides of it. Thus if $\alpha$ be the perpendicular to a reflecting surface +and $\beta$ the path of an incident ray, $-\rho$ will be the path of the +reflected ray. + +Another mode of obtaining these results is to expand the above +expression, thus, \S 90 (2), +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\rho&=&2\alpha^{-1}S\alpha\beta-\beta\\ +&=&2\alpha^{-1}S\alpha\beta-\alpha^{-1}(S\alpha\beta+V\alpha\beta)\\ +&=&\alpha^{-1}(S\alpha\beta-V\alpha\beta) +\end{array} +$$ +so that in the figure of \S 77 we see that if $\overline{OA}=\alpha$, +and $\overline{OB}=\beta$, we +have $\overline{OD} = \rho = \alpha\beta\alpha^{-1}$ + +Or, again, we may get the result at once by transforming the +equation to $\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=K(\alpha^{-1}\rho)=K\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$ + +{\bf 106}. For any three coplanar vectors the expression +$$\rho=\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +is (\S 101) a vector. It is interesting to determine what this vector +is. The reader will easily see that if a circle be described about +the triangle, two of whose sides are (in order) $\alpha$ and $\beta$, +and if from +the extremity of $\beta$ a line parallel to $\gamma$ be drawn, +again cutting the +circle, the vector joining the point of intersection with the origin +of $\alpha$ is the direction of the vector $\alpha\beta\gamma$. +For we may write it in the form +$$ +\rho=\alpha\beta^2\beta^{-1}\gamma= +-(T\beta)^2\alpha\beta^{-1}\gamma= +-(T\beta)^2\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\gamma +$$ +which shows that the versor $\displaystyle\left(\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)$ +which turns $\beta$ into a direction +parallel to $\alpha$, turns $\gamma$ into a direction parallel to $\rho$. +And this expresses the long-known property of opposite angles of a +quadrilateral inscribed in a circle. + +Hence if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be the sides of a triangle taken in order, the +tangents to the circumscribing circle at the angles of the triangle +are parallel respectively to +$$ +\alpha\beta\gamma,\;\;\;\; +\beta\gamma\alpha,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } +\gamma\alpha\beta +$$ + +Suppose two of these to be parallel, i. e. let +$$\alpha\beta\gamma=x\beta\gamma\alpha=x\alpha\gamma\beta\;\;\;\;(\S 90)$$ +since the expression is a vector. Hence +$$\beta\gamma=x\gamma\beta$$ +which requires either +$$x=1,\;\;\;\;V\gamma\beta=0\;\;\;\;\textrm{ or }\gamma \vert\vert \beta$$ +a case not contemplated in the problem; or +$$x=-1,\;\;\;\;S\beta\gamma=0$$ +i. e. the triangle is right-angled. And geometry shows us at once +that this is correct. + +Again, if the triangle be isosceles, the tangent at the vertex is +parallel to the base. Here we have +$$x\beta=\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +or +$$x(\alpha+\gamma)=\alpha(\alpha+\gamma)\gamma$$ +whence $x=\gamma^2=\alpha^2$, or $T\gamma=T\alpha$, as required. + +As an elegant extension of this proposition the reader may +prove that the vector of the continued product $\alpha\beta\gamma\delta$ +of the vectorsides of any quadrilateral inscribed in a sphere +is parallel to the radius drawn to the corner ($\alpha$, $\delta$). +[For, if $\epsilon$ be the vector from $\delta$, +$\alpha$ to $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\alpha\beta\epsilon$ and +$\epsilon\gamma\delta$ are (by what precedes) vectors {\sl touching} the +sphere at $\alpha$, $\delta$. And their product (whose vector part must be +parallel to the radius at $\alpha$, $\delta$) is +$$\alpha\beta\epsilon . \epsilon\gamma\delta=\epsilon^2 . +\alpha\beta\gamma\delta]$$ + +{\bf 107}. To exemplify the variety of possible transformations +even of simple expressions, we will take cases which are of +frequent occurrence in applications to geometry. + +Thus $$T(\rho+\alpha)=T(\rho-\alpha)$$ +[which expresses that if +$$ +\overline{OA}=\alpha\;\;\;\; +\overline{OA^{'}}=-\alpha\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;\; +\overline{OP}=\rho +$$ +we have\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$AP=A^{'}P$\\ +and thus that $P$ is any point equidistant from two fixed points,] +may be written $$(\rho+\alpha)^2=(\rho-\alpha)^2$$ +or\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho^2+2S\alpha\rho+\alpha^2= +\rho^2-2S\alpha\rho+\alpha^2\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 104)}$\\ +whence\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$S\alpha\rho=0$\\ +This may be changed to +$$\alpha\rho+\rho\alpha=0$$ +or +$$\alpha\rho+K\alpha\rho=0$$ +$$SU\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=0$$ +or finally, +$$TVU\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1$$ +all of which express properties of a plane. + +Again,\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$T\rho=T\alpha$\\ +may be written\hbox{\hskip 3.2cm}$\displaystyle T\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1$ +$$\left(S\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2-\left(V\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2=1$$ +$$(\rho+\alpha)^2-2S\alpha(\rho+\alpha)=0$$ +$$\rho=(\rho+\alpha)^{-1}\alpha(\rho+\alpha)$$ +$$S(\rho+\alpha)(\rho-\alpha)=0$$ +or finally, +$$T.(\rho+\alpha)(\rho-\alpha)=2TV\alpha\rho$$ + +All of these express properties of a sphere. They will be +interpreted when we come to geometrical applications. + +{\bf 108}. {\sl To find the space relation among five points.} + +A system of five points, so far as its internal relations are +concerned, is fully given by the vectors from one to the other four. +If three of these be called $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, the fourth, +$\delta$, is necessarily expressible as +$x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma$. Hence the relation required must be +independent of x, y, z. + +But +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{rlll} +S\alpha\delta &=\;x\alpha^2 &+\;yS\alpha\beta &+\;zS\alpha\gamma\\ +S\beta\delta &=\;xS\beta\alpha &+\;y\beta^2 &+\;zS\beta\gamma\\ +S\gamma\delta &=\;xS\gamma\alpha &+\;yS\gamma\beta &+\;z\gamma^2\\ +S\delta\delta=\delta^2 &=\;xS\delta\alpha &+\;yS\delta\beta &+\;zS\delta\gamma +\end{array} +\right\}\eqno{(1)} +$$ +The elimination of $x$, $y$, $z$ gives a determinant of the fourth order, +which may be written +$$ +\left\vert +\begin{array}{cccc} +S\alpha\alpha & S\alpha\beta & S\alpha\gamma & S\alpha\delta\\ +S\beta\alpha & S\beta\beta & S\beta\gamma & S\beta\delta\\ +S\gamma\alpha & S\gamma\beta & S\gamma\gamma & S\gamma\delta\\ +S\delta\alpha & S\delta\beta & S\delta\gamma & S\delta\delta +\end{array} +\right\vert=0 +$$ +Now each term may be put in either of two forms, thus +$$S\beta\gamma=\frac{1}{2}\left\{\beta^2+\gamma^2-(\beta-\gamma)^2\right\}= +-T\beta T\gamma\cos\widehat{\beta\gamma}$$ + + +If the former be taken we have the expression connecting the +distances, two and two, of five points in the form given by Muir +(Proc. R. S. E. 1889) ; if we use the latter, the tensors divide out +(some in rows, some in columns), and we have the relation among +the cosines of the sides and diagonals of a spherical quadrilateral. + +We may easily show (as an exercise in quaternion manipulation +merely) that this is the {\sl only} condition, by showing that from it +we can get the condition when any other of the points is taken as +origin. Thus, let the origin be at $\alpha$, the vectors are +$\alpha$, $\beta-\alpha$, $\gamma-\alpha$, $\delta-\alpha$. +But, by changing the signs of the first row, and first +column, of the determinant above, and then adding their values +term by term to the other rows and columns, it becomes +$$ +\left\vert +\begin{array}{cccc} +S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) +& S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ +S(\beta-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\beta-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) +& S(\beta-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\beta-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ +S(\gamma-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\gamma-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) +& S(\gamma-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\gamma-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ +S(\delta-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\delta-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) +& S(\delta-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\delta-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha) +\end{array} +\right\vert +$$ +which, when equated to zero, gives the same relation as before. +[See Ex. 10 at the end of this Chapter.] + +An additional point, with $\epsilon=x^{'}\alpha+y^{'}\beta+z^{'}\gamma$ +gives six additional equations like (1) ; i. e. +$$ +\begin{array}{rlll} +S\alpha\epsilon&=x^{'}\alpha^2&+y^{'}S\alpha\beta&+z^{'}S\alpha\gamma\\ +S\beta\epsilon&=x^{'}S\beta\alpha&+y^{'}\beta^2&+z^{'}S\beta\gamma\\ +S\gamma\epsilon&=x^{'}S\gamma\alpha&+y^{'}S\gamma\beta&+z^{'}\gamma^2\\ +S\delta\epsilon&=x^{'}S\delta\alpha&+y^{'}S\delta\beta&+z^{'}S\delta\gamma\\ +&=xS\epsilon\alpha&+yS\epsilon\beta&+zS\epsilon\gamma\\ +\epsilon^2&=x^{'}S\alpha\epsilon&+y^{'}S\beta\epsilon&+z^{'}S\gamma\epsilon +\end{array} +$$ +from which corresponding conclusions may be drawn. + +Another mode of solving the problem at the head of this +section is to write the {\sl identity} +$$ +\sum m(\alpha-\theta)^2=\sum m\alpha^2-sS.\theta\sum m\alpha+\theta^2\sum m +$$ +where the $m$s are undetermined scalars, and the $\alpha$s are given +vectors, while $\theta$ is any vector whatever. + +Now, {\sl provided that the number of given vectors exceeds four}, we +do not completely determine the ms by imposing the conditions +$$\sum m=0,\;\;\;\;\sum m\alpha=0$$ +Thus we may write the above identity, for each of five vectors +successively, as +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_1)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ +\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_2)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ +\ldots\ldots &=& \ldots\\ +\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_n)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ +\end{array} +$$ +Take, with these,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\sum m = 0$\\ +and we have six linear equations from which to eliminate the $m$s. +The resulting determinant is +$$ +\left\vert +\begin{array}{cccccc} +\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_s^2} & +\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_3^2} & . & +\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ +\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_s^2} & +\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_3^2} & . & +\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ +. & . & . & & . & \\ +. & . & . & & . & \\ +\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_s^2} & +\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_3^2} & . & +\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ +1 & 1 & . & . & 1 & 0\\ +\end{array} +\right\vert +\sum m\alpha^2=0 +$$ + +This is equivalent to the form in which Cayley gave the +relation among the mutual distances of five points. (Camb. Math. +Journ. 1841.) + +{\bf 109}. We have seen in \S 95 that a quaternion may be divided +into its scalar and vector parts as follows: +$$ +\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= +\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta) +$$ +where $\theta$ is the angle between the directions of +$\alpha$ and $\beta$ and $\displaystyle \epsilon=UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$ +is the unit-vector perpendicular to the plane of $\alpha$ +and $\beta$ so situated +that positive (i.e. left-handed) rotation about it turns +$\alpha$ towards $\beta$ + +Similarly we have (\S 96) +$$ +\begin{array}{rl} +\alpha\beta&=S\alpha\beta + V\alpha\beta\\ +&=T\alpha T\beta(-\cos\theta +\epsilon\sin\theta) +\end{array} +$$ +$\theta$ and $\epsilon$ having the same signification as before. + +{\bf 110}. Hence, considering the versor parts alone, we have +$$U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta$$ +Similarly +$$U\frac{\gamma}{\beta}=\cos\phi+\epsilon\sin\phi$$ +$\phi$ being the positive angle between the directions of +$\gamma$ and $\beta$, and $\epsilon$ +the same vector as before, if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be coplanar. + +Also we have +$$U\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\cos(\theta+\phi)+\epsilon\sin(\theta+\phi)$$ +But we have always +$$\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}$$ +and therefore +$$U\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=U\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}$$ +or +$$ +\cos(\phi+\theta)+\epsilon\sin(\phi+\theta)= +(\cos\phi+\epsilon\sin\phi)(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta) +$$ +$$ +=\cos\phi\cos\theta-\sin\phi\sin\theta+ +\epsilon(\sin\phi\cos\theta+\cos\phi\sin\theta) +$$ +from which we have at once the fundamental formulae for the +cosine and sine of the sum of two arcs, by equating separately the +scalar and vector parts of these quaternions. + +And we see, as an immediate consequence of the expressions +above, that +$$\cos m\theta+\epsilon\sin m\theta=(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta)^m$$ +if $m$ be a positive whole number. For the left-hand side is a versor +which turns through the angle $m\theta$ at once, while the right-hand +side is a versor which effects the same object by $m$ successive turn +ings each through an angle $\theta$. See \S\S 8, 9. + +{\bf 111}. To extend this proposition to fractional indices we have +only to write $\displaystyle \frac{\theta}{n}$ for $\theta$, +when we obtain the results as in ordinary trigonometry. + +From De Moivre's Theorem, thus proved, we may of course +deduce the rest of Analytical Trigonometry. And as we have +already deduced, as interpretations of self-evident quaternion +transformations (\S\S 97, 104), the fundamental formulae for the solution +of plane triangles, we will now pass to the consideration of spherical +trigonometry, a subject specially adapted for treatment by qua +ternions; but to which we cannot afford more than a very few +sections. (More on this subject will be found in Chap. XI in +connexion with the Kinematics of rotation.) The reader is referred to +Hamilton s works for the treatment of this subject by quaternion +exponentials. + +{\bf 112}. Let $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be unit-vectors drawn from the centr to the +corners $A$, $B$, $C$ of a triangle on the unit-sphere. Then it is evident +that, with the usual notation, we have (\S 96), +$$ +S\alpha\beta=-\cos c,\;\;\;\; +S\beta\gamma=-\cos a,\;\;\;\; +S\gamma\alpha=-\cos b +$$ +$$ +TV\alpha\beta=\sin c,\;\;\;\; +TV\beta\gamma=\sin a,\;\;\;\; +TV\gamma\alpha=\sin b +$$ +Also $UV\alpha\beta$, $UV\beta\gamma$, $UV\gamma\alpha$ +are evidently the vectors of the corners of the polar triangle. + +Hence +$$S.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma=\cos B\textrm{, \&c.}$$ +$$TV.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma=\sin B\textrm{, \&c.}$$ + +Now (\S 90 (1)) we have +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma&=&S.\alpha V(\beta V\beta\gamma)\\ +&=&-S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma + \beta^2S\alpha\gamma +\end{array} +$$ +Remembering that we have +$$ +SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma= +TV\alpha\beta TV\beta\gamma S.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma +$$ +we see that the formula just written is equivalent to +$$\sin a \sin c \cos B = -\cos a \cos c + \cos b$$ +or +$$\cos b = \cos a \cos c + \sin a \sin c \cos B$$ + +{\bf 113}. Again, +$$V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma=-\beta S\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +which gives +$$ +TV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma= +TS.\alpha\beta\gamma= +TS.\alpha V\beta\gamma= +TS.\beta V\gamma\alpha= +TS.\gamma V\alpha\beta +$$ +or +$$\sin a \sin c \sin B = \sin a \sin p_a = \sin b \sin p_b = \sin c \sin p_c$$ +where $p_a$ is the arc drawn from $A$ perpendicular to $BC$, \&c. +Hence +$$\sin p_a = \sin c \sin B$$ +$$\sin p_b = \frac{\sin a \sin c}{\sin b} \sin B$$ +$$\sin p_c = \sin a \sin B$$ + +{\bf 114}. Combining the results of the last two sections, we have +$$V\alpha\beta .V\beta\gamma=\sin a \sin c \cos B-\beta \sin a \sin c \sin B$$ +$$= \sin a \sin c (\cos B - \beta \sin B)$$ +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{lcl} +\textrm{Hence} & \hbox{\hskip 1cm} +& U.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma=(\cos B-\beta\sin B)\\ +\textrm{and} & \hbox{\hskip 1.1cm} +& U.V\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha=(\cos B+\beta\sin B) +\end{array} +\right\} +$$ +These are therefore versors which turn all vectors perpendicular to +$OB$ negatively or positively about $OB$ through the angle $B$. + +[It will be shown later (\S 119) that, in the combination +$$(\cos B+\beta\sin B)(\;\;\;\;)(\cos B -\beta\sin B)$$ +the system operated on is made to rotate, as if rigid, round the +vector axis $\beta$ through an angle $2B$.] + +As another instance, we have +$$ +\begin{array}{rl} +\tan B &=\displaystyle \frac{\sin B}{\cos B}\\ +&\\ +&=\displaystyle +\frac{TV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}{S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}\\ +&\\ +&=\displaystyle +-\beta^{-1}\frac{V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}{S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}\\ +&\\ +&=\displaystyle +-\frac{S.\alpha\beta\gamma}{S\alpha\gamma+S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma} +=\textrm{ \&c} +\end{array} +\eqno{(1)} +$$ + +The interpretation of each of these forms gives a different theorem +in spherical trigonometry. + +{\bf 115}. Again, let us square the equal quantities +$$ +V.\alpha\beta\gamma\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;\; +\alpha S\beta\gamma-\beta S\alpha\gamma+\gamma S\alpha\beta$$ +supposing $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ to be any unit-vectors whatever. We have +$$ +-(V.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2= +S^2\beta\gamma + S^2\gamma\alpha + +S^2\alpha\beta + 2S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S\alpha\beta +$$ +But the left-hand member may be written as +$$T^2.\alpha\beta\gamma-S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ +whence +$$ +1-S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma=S^2\beta\gamma +S^2\gamma\alpha + +S^2\alpha\beta+2S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S\alpha\beta +$$ +or +$$ +1-\cos^2 a - \cos^2 b - \cos^2 c + 2 \cos a \cos b \cos c$$ +$$= \sin^2 a \sin^2 p_a = \textrm{ \&c.}$$ +$$= \sin^2 a \sin^2 b \sin^2 C = \textrm{ \&c.}$$ +all of which are well-known formulae. + +{\bf 116}. Again, for any quaternion, +$$q=Sq+Vq$$ +so that, if $n$ be a positive integer, +$$q^n=(Sq)^n+n(Sq)^{n-1}Vq+ +\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(Sq)^{n-2}(Vq)^2+\ldots$$ +From this at once +$$S.q^n=(Sq)^n-\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(Sq)^{n-2}T^2Vq$$ +$$+\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}.\overline{n-3}}{1.2.3.4} +(Sq)^{n-4}T^4(Vq)-\textrm{\&c.,}$$ +$$V.q^n=Vq\left[n(Sq)^{n-1}- +\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}}{1.2.3} +(Sq)^{n-3}T^2Vq+\textrm{\&c.,}\right]$$ +If $q$ be a versor we have +$$q=\cos u +\theta\sin u$$ +so that +$$ +\begin{array}{rl} +S.q^n & =\displaystyle +(\cos u)^n-\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(\cos u)^{n-2}(\sin u)^2+\ldots\\ +&\\ +&=\displaystyle\cos nu;\\ +&\\ +V.q^n & =\displaystyle +\theta\sin u\left[n(\cos u)^{n-1}- +\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}}{1.2.3} +(\cos u)^{n-3}(\sin u)^2+\ldots\right]\\ +&\\ +&=\displaystyle\theta\sin nu; +\end{array} +$$ +as we might at once have concluded from \S 110. + +Such results may be multiplied indefinitely by any one who has +mastered the elements of quaternions. + +{\bf 117}. A curious proposition, due to Hamilton, gives us a +quaternion expression for the {\sl spherical excess} in any triangle. +The following proof, which is very nearly the same as one of his, +though by no means the simplest that can be given, is chosen here +because it incidentally gives a good deal of other information. +We leave the quaternion proof as an exercise. + +Let the unit-vectors drawn from the centre of the sphere to +$A$, $B$, $C$, respectively, be $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$. +It is required to express, as an +arc and as an angle on the sphere, the quaternion +$$\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$$ + +\includegraphics{ps/quat18.ps} + +The figure represents an orthographic projection made on a +plane perpendicular to $\gamma$. Hence $C$ is the centre of the circle $DEe$. +Let the great circle through $A$, $B$ meet $DEe$ in $E$, $e$, and let $DE$ be +a quadrant. Thus +${\stackrel{\frown}{DE}}$ represents $\gamma$ (\S 72). Also make +${\stackrel{\frown}{EF}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ +$=\beta\alpha^{-1}$ Then, evidently, +$${\stackrel{\frown}{DF}}=\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$$ +which gives the arcual representation required. + +Let $DF$ cut $Ee$ in $G$. Make $Ca = EG$, and join $D$, $a$, and $a$, $F$. +Obviously, as $D$ is the pole of $Ee$, $Da$ is a quadrant ; and since +$EG = Ca$, $Ga = EG$, a quadrant also. Hence $a$ is the pole of $DG$, +and therefore the quaternion may be represented by the angle +$DaF$. + +Make $Cb = Ca$, and draw the arcs $Pa\beta$, $Pb\alpha$ from $P$, the pole of +$AB$. Comparing the triangles $Eb\alpha$ and $ea\beta$, +we see that $E\alpha = e\beta$. +But, since $P$ is the pole of $AB$, $F\beta a$ is a right angle: and therefore +as $Fa$ is a quadrant, so is $F\beta$. Thus $AB$ is the complement of $E\alpha$ +or $\beta e$, and therefore +$$\alpha\beta=2AB$$ + +Join $bA$. and produce it to $c$ so that $Ac = bA$; join $c$, $P$, cutting +$AB$ in $o$. Also join $c$, $B$, and $B$, $a$. + +Since $P$ is the pole of $AB$, the angles at $o$ are right angles; +and therefore, by the equal triangles $b\alpha A$, $coA$, we have +$$\alpha A = Ao$$ +But +$$\alpha\beta = 2AB$$ +whence +$$oB=B\beta$$ +and therefore the triangles $coB$ and $Ba\beta$ are equal, and $c$, $B$, $a$ +lie on the same great circle. + +Produce $cA$ and $cB$ to meet in $H$ (on the opposite side of the +sphere). $H$ and $c$ are diametrically opposite, and therefore $cP$, +produced, passes through $H$. + +Now $Pa = Pb = PH$, for they differ from quadrants by the +equal arcs $a\beta$, $b\alpha$, $oc$. Hence these arcs divide the +triangle $Hab$ into three isosceles triangles. + +But +$$\angle PHb + \angle PHA = \angle aHb = \angle bca$$ +Also +$$\angle Pab = \pi - \angle cab - \angle PaH$$ +$$\angle Pba = \angle Pab = \pi - \angle cba - \angle PbH$$ +Adding, +$$2\angle Pab = 2\pi - \angle cab - \angle cba - \angle bca$$ +$$= \pi - (\textrm{spherical excess of }abc)$$ +But, as $\angle Fa\beta$ and $\angle Dae$ are right angles, we have +$$ +\textrm{angle of }\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma = +\angle FaD = \beta ae = \angle Pab +$$ +$$=\frac{\pi}{2} - \frac{1}{2}(\textrm{spherical excess of }abc)$$ + +[Numerous singular geometrical theorems, easily proved {\sl ab +initio} by quaternions, follow from this: e.g. The arc $AB$, which +bisects two sides of a spherical triangle $abc$, intersects the base at +the distance of a quadrant from its middle point. All spherical +triangles, with a common side, and having their other sides +bisected by the same great circle (i.e. having their vertices in a +small circle parallel to this great circle) have equal areas, \&c. ] + +{\bf 118}. Let $\overline{Oa}=\alpha^{'}$, $\overline{Ob}=\beta^{'}$, +$\overline{Oc}=\gamma^{'}$, and we have +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\left(\frac{\alpha^{'}}{\beta^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +\left(\frac{\beta^{'}}{\gamma^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +\left(\frac{\gamma^{'}}{\alpha^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}&=& +{\stackrel{\frown}{Ca}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{cA}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{Bc}}\\ +&=&{\stackrel{\frown}{Ca}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}\\ +&=&{\stackrel{\frown}{EG}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{FE}}= +{\stackrel{\frown}{FG}} +\end{array} +$$ + +But $FG$ is the complement of $DF$. Hence the {\sl angle of the +quaternion} +$$ +\left(\frac{\alpha^{'}}{\beta^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +\left(\frac{\beta^{'}}{\gamma^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +\left(\frac{\gamma^{'}}{\alpha^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +$$ +{\sl is half the spherical excess of the triangle whose angular points are +at the extremities of the unit-vectors} $\alpha^{'}$, $\beta^{'}$, and +$\gamma^{'}$. + +[In seeking a purely quaternion proof of the preceding proposi +tions, the student may commence by showing that for any three +unit-vectors we have +$$ +\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\frac{\gamma}{\beta}\frac{\alpha}{\gamma}= +-(\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma)^2 +$$ + +The angle of the first of these quaternions can be easily assigned; +and the equation shows how to find that of $\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$. + +Another easy method is to commence afresh by forming from +the vectors of the corners of a spherical triangle three new vectors +thus: +$$ +\alpha^{'}=\left(\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\alpha}^{2}\right)^2 .\;\alpha,\;\;\;\;\; +\textrm{\&c.} +$$ + +Then the angle between the planes of $\alpha$, $\beta^{'}$ and +$\gamma^{'}$, $\alpha$; or of $\beta$, $\gamma^{'}$ and $\alpha^{'}$, +$\beta$; or of $\gamma$, $\alpha^{'}$ and $\beta^{'}$, $\gamma$ +is obviously the spherical excess. + +But a still simpler method of proof is easily derived from the +composition of rotations.] + +{\bf 119}. It may be well to introduce here, though it belongs +rather to Kinematics than to Geometry, the interpretation of the +operator +$$q(\;\;\;)q^{-1}$$ + +By a rotation, about the axis of $q$, through double the angle of $q$, +the quaternion $r$ becomes the quaternion $qrq^{-1}$ . Its tensor and +angle remain unchanged, its plane or axis alone varies. + +\includegraphics{ps/quat19.ps} + +A glance at the figure is sufficient for +the proof, if we note that of course +$T . qrq^{-1} = Tr$, and therefore that we need +consider the {\sl versor} parts only. Let $Q$ +be the pole of $q$. +$$ +{\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}=q,\;\;\;\; +{\stackrel{\frown}{AB^{-1}}}=q^{-1},\;\;\;\; +{\stackrel{\frown}{B^{'}C^{'}}}=r +$$ +Join $C^{'}A$, and make +${\stackrel{\frown}{AC}}={\stackrel{\frown}{C^{'}A}}$. Join $CB$. + +Then ${\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ is $qrq^{-1}$, +its arc $CB$ is evidently equal in length to that +of $r$, $B^{'}C^{'}$; and its plane (making the same angle with +$B^{'}B$ that that of +$B^{'}C^{'}$ does) has evidently been made to revolve about $Q$, the +pole of $q$, through double the angle of $q$. + +It is obvious, from the nature of the above proof, that this +operation is distributive; i.e. that +$$q(r+s)q^{-1}=qrq^{-1}+qsq^{-1}$$ + +If $r$ be a vector, $=\rho$, then $q\rho q^{-1}$ +(which is also a vector) is the +result of a rotation through double the angle of $q$ about the axis +of $q$. Hence, as Hamilton has expressed it, if $B$ represent a rigid +system, or assemblage of vectors, +$$qBq^{-1}$$ +is its new position after rotating through double the angle of $q$ +about the axis of $q$. + +{\bf 120}. To compound such rotations, we have +$$r . qBq^{-1} . r^{-1} = rq . B . (rq)^{-1}$$ + +To cause rotation through an angle $t$-fold the double of the angle +of $q$ we write +$$q^{t}Bq^{-t}$$ + +To reverse the direction of this rotation write +$$q^{-t}Bq^{t}$$ + +To {\sl translate} the body $B$ without rotation, each point of it moving +through the vector $\alpha$, we write $\alpha + B$. + +To produce rotation of the translated body about the same axis, +and through the same angle, as before, +$$q(\alpha+B)q^{-1}$$ + +Had we rotated first, and then translated, we should have had +$$\alpha+qBq^{-1}$$ + +From the point of view of those who do not believe in the +Moon s rotation, the former of these expressions ought to be +$$q\alpha q^{-1}+B$$ +instead of +$$q\alpha q^{-1}+qBq^{-1}$$ +But to such men quaternions are unintelligible. + +{\bf 121}. The operator above explained finds, of course, some +of its most direct applications in the ordinary questions of +Astronomy, connected with the apparent diurnal rotation of the +stars. If $\lambda$ be a unit-vector parallel to the polar axis, and $h$ the +hour angle from the meridian, the operator is +$$ +\left(\cos\frac{h}{2}-\lambda\sin\frac{h}{2}\right) +\left(\;\;\;\;\right) +\left(\cos\frac{h}{2}+\lambda\sin\frac{h}{2}\right) +$$ +or +$$L^{-1}\left(\;\;\;\;\right)L$$ + +the inverse going first, because the {\sl apparent} rotation is negative +(clockwise). + +If the upward line be $i$, and the southward $j$, we have +$$\lambda = i\sin l-j\cos l$$ +where $l$ is the latitude of the observer. The meridian equatorial +unit vector is +$$\mu = i\cos l+j\sin l$$ +and $\lambda$, $\mu$, $k$ of course form a rectangular unit system. + +The meridian unit-vector of a heavenly body is +$$\delta=i\cos(l-d)+j\sin(l-d)$$ +$$=\lambda\sin d+\mu\cos d$$ +where $d$ is its declination. + +Hence when its hour-angle is $h$, its vector is +$$\delta^{'}=L^{-1}\delta L$$ + +The vertical plane containing it intersects the horizon in +$$iVi\delta^{'}=jSj\delta^{'}+kSk\delta^{'}$$ +so that +$$\tan(azimuth)=\frac{Sk\delta^{'}}{Sj\delta^{'}}\eqno{(1)}$$ + +[This may also be obtained directly from the last formula (1) +of \S 114.] + +To find its Amplitude, i.e. its azimuth at rising or setting, +the hour-angle must be obtained from the condition +$$Si\delta^{'}=0\eqno{(2)}$$ + +These relations, with others immediately deducible from them, +enable us (at once and for ever) to dispense with the hideous +formulae of Spherical Trigonometry. + +{\bf 122}. To show how readily they can be applied, let us +translate the expressions above into the ordinary notation. This +is effected at once by means of the expressions for $\lambda$, $\mu$, $L$, +and $\delta$ above, which give by inspection +$$\delta^{'}=\lambda\sin d+(\mu\cos h-k\sin h)\cos d$$ += x sin d + (fjb cos h k sin h) cos d, +and we have from (1) and (2) of last section respectively +$$ +\tan(azimuth)= +\frac{\sin h\cos d}{\cos l\sin d-\sin l\cos d\cos h}\eqno{(1)} +$$ +$$ +\cos h+\tan l \tan d=0\eqno{(2)} +$$ + +In Capt. Weir s ingenious {\sl Azimuth Diagram}, these equations +are represented graphically by the rectangular coordinates of a +system of confocal conics: viz. +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{c} +x = \sin h \sec l \\ +y = \cos h \tan l +\end{array} +\right\}\eqno{(3)} +$$ + +The ellipses of this system depend upon $l$ alone, the hyperbolas +upon $h$. Since (1) can, by means of (3), be written as +$$\tan(azimuth)=\frac{x}{\tan d-y}$$ +we see that the azimuth can be constructed at once by joining +with the point $0$, $-\tan d$, the intersection of the proper ellipse and +hyperbola. + +Equation (2) puts these expressions for the coordinates in the +form +$$ +\left. +\begin{array}{c} +x=\sec l\sqrt{1-\tan^{2} l\tan^{2} d}\\ +y=-\tan^{2} l \tan d +\end{array} +\right\} +$$ + +The elimination of $d$ gives the ellipse as before, but that of $l$ +gives, instead of the hyperbolas, the circles +$$x^{2}+y^{2}-y(\tan d-\cot d)=1$$ + +The radius is +$$\frac{1}{2}(\tan d+ \cot d)$$ +and the coordinates of the centre are +$$0,\;\;\;\frac{1}{2}(\tan d- \cot d)$$ + +123. A scalar equation in $\rho$, the vector of an undetermined +point, is generally the equation of a {\sl surface}; since we may use +in it the expression +$$\rho=x\alpha$$ +where $x$ is an unknown scalar, and $\alpha$ any assumed unit-vector. +The result is an equation to determine $x$. Thus one or more +points are found on the vector $x\alpha$, whose coordinates satisfy the +equation; and the locus is a surface whose degree is determined +by that of the equation which gives the values of $x$. + +But a {\sl vector} equation in $\rho$, as we have seen, generally leads to +three scalar equations, from which the three rectangular or other +components of the sought vector are to be derived. Such a vector +equation, then, usually belongs to a definite number of {\sl points} in +space. But in certain cases these may form a {\sl line}, and even a +{\sl surface}, the vector equation losing as it were one or two of the +three scalar equations to which it is usually equivalent. + +Thus while the equation +$$\alpha\rho=\beta$$ +gives at once +$$\rho=\alpha^{-1}\beta$$ +which is the vector of a definite point, since by making $\rho$ a {\sl vector} +we have evidently assumed +$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ +the closely allied equation +$$V\alpha\rho=\beta$$ +is easily seen to involve +$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ +and to be satisfied by +$$\rho=\alpha^{-1}\beta+x\alpha$$ +whatever be $x$. Hence the vector of any point whatever in the +line drawn parallel to $\alpha$ from the extremity of $\alpha^{-1}\beta$ +satisfies the given equation. [The difference between the results depends +upon the fact that $S\alpha\rho$ is indeterminate in the second form, but +definite (= 0) in the first.] + +{\bf 124}. Again, +$$V\alpha\rho . V\rho\beta=(V\alpha\beta)^{2}$$ +is equivalent to but two scalar equations. For it shows that $V\alpha\rho$ +and $V\beta\rho$ are parallel, i.e. $\rho$ +lies in the same plane as $\alpha$ and $\beta$, and +can therefore be written (\S 24) +$$\rho=x\alpha+y\beta$$ +where $x$ and $y$ are scalars as yet undetermined. + +We have now +$$V\alpha\rho=yV\alpha\beta$$ +$$V\rho\beta=xV\alpha\beta$$ +which, by the given equation, lead to +$$xy=1,\;\;\;\textrm{or}\;\;\;y=\frac{1}{x}$$ +or finally +$$\rho=x\alpha+\frac{1}{x}\beta$$ +which (\S 40) is the equation of a hyperbola whose asymptotes are +in the directions of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. + +{\bf 125}. Again, the equation +$$V . V\alpha\beta V\alpha\rho=0$$ +though apparently equivalent to three scalar equations, is really +equivalent to one only. In fact we see by \S 91 that it may be +written +$$-\alpha S.\alpha\beta\rho=0$$ +whence, if $\alpha$ be not zero, we have +$$S . \alpha\beta\rho=0$$ +and thus (\S 101) the only condition is that $\rho$ is coplanar with +$\alpha$, $\beta$. +Hence the equation represents the plane in which +$\alpha$ and $\beta$ lie. + +{\bf 126}. Some very curious results are obtained when we extend +these processes of interpretation to functions of a {\sl quaternion} +$$q=w+\rho$$ +instead of functions of a mere {\sl vector} $\rho$. + +A scalar equation containing such a quaternion, along with +quaternion constants, gives, as in last section, the equation of a +surface, if we assign a definite value to $w$. Hence for successive +values of $w$, we have successive surfaces belonging to a system ; +and thus when $w$ is indeterminate the equation represents not a +{\sl surface}, as before, but a {\sl volume}, +in the sense that the vector of any +point within that volume satisfies the equation. + +Thus the equation +$$(Tq)^2=a^2$$ +or +$$w^2-\rho^2=a^2$$ +or +$$(TP)^2=a^2-w^2$$ +represents, for any assigned value of $w$, not greater than $a$, a sphere +whose radius is $\sqrt{a^2-w^2}$. Hence the equation is satisfied by the +vector of any point whatever in the {\sl volume} of a sphere of radius $a$, +whose centre is origin. + +Again, by the same kind of investigation, +$$(T (q-\beta))^2=a^2$$ +where $q=w+\rho$, is easily seen to represent the volume of a sphere +of radius $a$ described about the extremity of $\beta$ as centre. + +Also $S(q^2) = -a^2$ is the equation of infinite space less the space +contained in a sphere of radius $a$ about the origin. + +Similar consequences as to the interpretation of vector +equations in quaternions may be readily deduced by the reader. + +{\bf 127}. The following transformation is enuntiated without proof +by Hamilton ({\sl Lectures}, p. 587, and {\sl Elements}, p. 299). +$$r^{-1}(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}q^{-1}=U(rq+KrKq)$$ +To prove it, let +$$r^{-1}(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}q^{-1}=t$$ +then +$$Tt=1$$ +and therefore +$$Kt=t^{-1}$$ +But +$$(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}=rtq$$ +or +$$r^2q^2=rtqrtq$$ +or +$$rq=tqrt$$ +Hence +$$KqKr=t^{-1}KrKqt^{-1}$$ +or +$$KrKq=tKqKrt$$ +Thus we have +$$U(rq\pm KrKq)=tU(qr\pm KqKr)t$$ +or, if we put +$$s=U(qr\pm KqKr)$$ +$$Ks=\pm tst$$ +Hence +$$sKs=(Ts)^2=1=\pm stst$$ +which, if we take the positive sign, requires +$$st=\pm 1$$ +or +$$t=\pm s^{-1}=\pm UKs$$ +which is the required transformation. + +[It is to be noticed that there are other results which might +have been arrived at by using the negative sign above ; some +involving an arbitrary unit-vector, others involving the imaginary +of ordinary algebra.] + +{\bf 128}. As a final example, we take a transformation of Hamilton's, +of great importance in the theory of surfaces of the second order. + +Transform the expression +$$(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2$$ +in which $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +are any three mutually rectangular vectors, into the form +$$\left(\frac{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}\right)^2$$ +which involves only two vector-constants, $\iota$, $\kappa$. + +[The student should remark here that $\iota$, $\kappa$, two undetermined +vectors, involve six disposable constants : and that $\alpha$, $\beta$, +$\gamma$, being a {\sl rectangular} system, involve also only six constants.] +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)\}^2 +&=& (\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)(\rho\iota+\kappa\rho)\;\;\;\;(\S\S 52,55)\\ +&=& (\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho^2+(\iota\rho\kappa\rho+\rho\kappa\rho\iota)\\ +&=& (\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho^2+2S.\iota\rho\kappa\rho\\ +&=& (\iota-\kappa)^2\rho^2+4S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho +\end{array} +$$ +Hence +$$ +(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2= +\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}\rho^2+ +4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +$$ +But +$$ +\alpha^{-2}(S\alpha\rho)^2+ +\beta^{-2}(S\beta\rho)^2+ +\gamma^{-2}(S\gamma\rho)^2= +\rho^2\;\;\;\;(\S\S 25,73). +$$ +Multiply by $\beta^2$ and subtract, we get +$$ +\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)(S\alpha\rho)^2- +\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)(S\gamma\rho)^2= +\left\{\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}-\beta^2\right\}\rho^2+ +4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +$$ + +The left side breaks up into two real factors if $\beta^2$ be intermediate +in value to $\alpha^2$ and $\gamma^2$: +and that the right side may do so the term +in $\rho^2$ must vanish. This condition gives +$$\beta^2=\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}$$ +and the identity becomes +$$ +S\left\{ +\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}+ +\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} +\right\} +\rho S\left\{ +\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}- +\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} +\right\}\rho= +4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +$$ +Hence we must have +$$ +\frac{2\iota}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}= +p\left\{ +\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}+ +\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} +\right\} +$$ +$$ +\frac{2\kappa}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}= +\frac{1}{p}\left\{ +\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}- +\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} +\right\} +$$ +where $\rho$ is an undetermined scalar. + +To determine $\rho$, substitute in the expression for $\beta^2$, and we find +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +4\beta^2=\frac{4(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +&=&\left(p-\frac{1}{p}\right)^2(\alpha^2-\beta^2)+ +\left(p+\frac{1}{p}\right)^2(\beta^2-\gamma^2)\\ +&=&\left(p^2+\frac{1}{p^2}\right)(\alpha^2-\gamma^2)- +2(\alpha^2+\gamma^2)+4\beta^2 +\end{array} +$$ + +Thus the transformation succeeds if +$$p^2+\frac{1}{p^2}=\frac{2(\alpha^2+\gamma^2)}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}$$ +which gives +$$p+\frac{1}{p}=\pm 2\sqrt{\frac{\alpha^2}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}}$$ +$$p-\frac{1}{p}=\pm 2\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}}$$ +Hence +$$ +\frac{4(\kappa^2-\iota^2)}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}= +\left(\frac{1}{p^2}-p^2\right)(\alpha^2-\gamma^2)= +\pm 4\sqrt{\alpha^2\gamma^2} +$$ +$$ +(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^{-1}=\pm T\alpha T\gamma$$ + +Again +$$ +p=\frac{T\alpha +T\gamma}{\sqrt{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}},\;\;\;\; +\frac{1}{p}=\frac{T\alpha -T\gamma}{\sqrt{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}} +$$ +and therefore +$$ +2\iota=\frac{T\alpha +T\gamma}{T\alpha T\gamma} +\left( +\sqrt{\frac{\beta^2-\alpha^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\alpha+ +\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2-\beta^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\gamma +\right) +$$ +$$ +2\kappa=\frac{T\alpha -T\gamma}{T\alpha T\gamma} +\left( +\sqrt{\frac{\beta^2-\alpha^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\alpha- +\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2-\beta^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\gamma +\right) +$$ +Thus we have proved the possibility of the transformation, and +determined the transforming vectors $\iota$, $\kappa$. + +{\bf 129}. By differentiating the equation +$$ +(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2= +\left(\frac{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)}\right)^2 +$$ +we obtain, as will be seen in Chapter IV, the following, +$$ +S\alpha\rho S\alpha\rho^{'}+ +S\beta\rho S\beta\rho^{'}+ +S\gamma\rho S\gamma\rho^{'}= +\frac{S.(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)(\kappa\rho^{'}+\rho^{'}\iota)} +{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +$$ +where $\rho$ also may be any vector whatever. + +This is another very important formula of transformation ; and +it will be a good exercise for the student to prove its truth by +processes analogous to those in last section. We may merely +observe, what indeed is obvious, that by putting $\rho^{'}=\rho$ it becomes +the formula of last section. And we see that we may write, with +the recent values of $\iota$ and $\kappa$ in terms of +$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, the identity +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +\alpha S\alpha\rho+\beta S\beta\rho+\gamma S\gamma\rho +&=&\displaystyle +\frac{(\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho+2V.\iota\rho\kappa}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}\\ +&&\\ +&=&\displaystyle +\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2\rho+2(\iota S\kappa\rho+\kappa S\iota\rho)} +{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} +\end{array} +$$ + +{\bf 130}. In various quaternion investigations, especially in such +as involve {\sl imaginary} intersections of curves and surfaces, the old +imaginary of algebra of course appears. But it is to be particularly +noticed that this expression is analogous to a scalar and not to a +vector, and that like real scalars it is commutative in +multiplication with all other factors. Thus it appears, by the same proof +as in algebra, that any quaternion expression which contains this +imaginary can always be broken up into the sum of two parts, one +real, the other multiplied by the first power of $\sqrt{-1}$. Such an +expression, viz. +$$q=q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}q^{''}$$ +where $q^{'}$ and $q^{''}$ are real quaternions, is called by Hamilton a +BIQUATERNION. [The student should be warned that the term +Biquaternion has since been employed by other writers in the +sense sometimes of a ``set'' of 8 elements, analogous to the +Quaternion 4 ; sometimes for an expression $q^{'} + \theta q^{''}$ +where $\theta$ is not +the algebraic imaginary. By them Hamilton s Biquaternion is +called simply a quaternion with non-real constituents.] Some +little care is requisite in the management of these expressions, but +there is no new difficulty. The points to be observed are: first, +that any biquaternion can be divided into a real and an imaginary +part, the latter being the product of $\sqrt{-1}$ by a real quaternion; +second, that this $\sqrt{-1}$ is commutative with all other quantities in +multiplication; third, that if two biquaternions be equal, as +$$q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''}=r^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;r^{''}$$ +we have, as in algebra, +$$q^{'}=r^{'},\;\;\;\;q^{''}=r^{''}$$ +so that an equation between biquaternions involves in general +{\sl eight} equations between scalars. Compare \S 80. + +{\bf 131}. We have obviously, since $\sqrt{-1}$ is a scalar, +$$S(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}$$ +$$V(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}$$ +Hence (\S 103) +$$\{T(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})\}^2$$ +$$ +=(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}+Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}) +(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}-Vq^{'}-\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}) +$$ +$$=(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''})^2-(Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''})^2$$ +$$=(Tq^{'})^2-(Tq^{''})^2+2\sqrt{-1}\;S.q^{'}Kq^{''}$$ + +The only remark which need be made on such formulae is this, that +{\sl the tensor of a biquaternion may vanish while both of the component +quaternions are finite}. + +Thus, if +$$Tq^{'}=Tq^{''}$$ +and +$$S.q^{'}Kq^{''}=0$$ +the above formula gives +$$T(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=0$$ +The condition +$$S.q^{'}Kq^{''}=0$$ +may be written +$$ +Kq^{''}=q^{'-1}\alpha,\;\;\;\textrm{ or }\;\;\; +q^{''}=-\alpha Kq^{'-1}=-\frac{\alpha q^{'}}{(Tq^{'})^2} +$$ +where $\alpha$ is any vector whatever. + +Hence +$$Tq^{'}=Tq^{''}=TKq^{''}=\frac{T\alpha}{Tq^{''}}$$ +and therefore +$$ +Tq^{'}(Uq^{'}-\sqrt{-1}\;U\alpha . Uq^{'})= +(1-\sqrt{-1}\;U\alpha)q^{'} +$$ +is the general form of a biquaternion whose tensor is zero. + +{\bf 132}. More generally we have, $q$, $r$, $q^{'}$, $r^{'}$ +being any four real and non-evanescent quaternions, +$$ +(q+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{'})(r+\sqrt{-1}\;r^{'})= +qr-q^{'}r^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;(qr^{'}+q^{'}r) +$$ +That this product may vanish we must have +$$qr=q^{'}r^{'}$$ +and +$$qr^{'}=-q^{'}r$$ +Eliminating $r^{'}$ we have +$$qq^{'-1}qr=-q^{'}r$$ +which gives +$$(q^{'-1}q)^2=-1$$ +i.e. +$$q=q^{'}\alpha$$ +where $\alpha$ is some unit-vector. + +And the two equations now agree in giving +$$-r=\alpha r^{'}$$ +so that we have the biquaternion factors in the form +$$q^{'}(\alpha +\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;-(\alpha-\sqrt{-1})r^{'}$$ +and their product is +$$-q^{'}(\alpha +\sqrt{-1})(\alpha -\sqrt{-1})r^{'}$$ +which, of course, vanishes. + +[A somewhat simpler investigation of the same proposition +may be obtained by writing the biquaternions as +$$ +q^{'}(q^{'-1}q+\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; +(rr^{'-1}+\sqrt{-1})r^{'} +$$ +or +$$ +q^{'}(q^{''}+\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; +(r^{''}+\sqrt{-1})r^{'} +$$ +and showing that +$$q^{''}=-r^{''}=\alpha \;\;\;\textrm{ where }\;T\alpha=1]$$ + +From this it appears that if the product of two {\sl bivectors} +$$ +\rho+\sigma\sqrt{-1}\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; +\rho^{'}+\sigma^{'}\sqrt{-1} +$$ +is zero, we must have +$$\sigma^{-1}\rho=-\rho^{'}\sigma^{'-1}=U\alpha$$ +where $\alpha$ may be any vector whatever. But this result is still more +easily obtained by means of a direct process. + +{\bf 133}. It may be well to observe here (as we intend to avail our +selves of them in the succeeding Chapters) that certain abbreviated +forms of expression may be used when they are not liable to confuse, +or lead to error. Thus we may write +$$T^2q\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(Tq)^2$$ +just as we write +$$\cos^2\theta\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(\cos\theta)^2$$ +although the true meanings of these expressions are +$$T(Tq)\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\;\cos(\cos\theta)$$ + +The former is justifiable, as $T(Tq) = Tq$, and therefore $T^2q$ is not +required to signify the second tensor (or tensor of the tensor) of $q$. +But the trigonometrical usage is defensible only on the score of +convenience, and is habitually violated by the employment of +$cos^{-1}x$ in its natural and proper sense. +Similarly we may write +$$S^2q\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(Sq)^2,\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ +but it may be advisable not to use +$$Sq^2$$ +as the equivalent of either of those just written; inasmuch as it +might be confounded with the (generally) different quantity +$$S.q^2\;\;\;\textrm{or}\;\;\;S(q^2)$$ +although this is rarely written without the point or the brackets. + +The question of the use of points or brackets is one on which +no very definite rules can be laid down. A beginner ought to use +them freely, and he will soon learn by trial which of them are +absolutely necessary to prevent ambiguity. + +In the present work this course has been adopted:-- the +earlier examples in each part of the subject being treated with +a free use of points and brackets, while in the later examples +superfluous marks of the kind are gradually got rid of. + +It may be well to indicate some general principles which +regulate the omission of these marks. Thus in $S.\alpha\beta$ or +$V.\alpha\beta$ +the point is obviously unnecessary:-- because $S\alpha=0$, and +$V\alpha=\alpha$ +so that the $S$ would annihilate the term if it applied to $\alpha$ alone, +while in the same case the $V$ would be superfluous. But in $S.qr$ +and $V.qr$, the point (or an equivalent) is indispensable, for $Sq.r$, +and $Vq.r$ are usually quite different from the first written +quantities. In the case of $K$, and of $d$ (used for scalar differentiation), +the {\sl omission} of the point indicates that the operator acts +{\sl only} on the nearest factor:-- thus +$$Kqr=(Kq)r=Kq.r,\;\;\;dqr=(dq)r=dq.r$$ +Kqr = (Kq) r = Kq . r, dqr = (dq) r=dq.r; +while, if its action extend farther, we write +$$K.qr=K(qr),\;\;\;d.qr=d(qr)\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ + +In more complex cases we must be ruled by the general +principle of dropping nothing which is essential. Thus, for +instance +$$V(pK(dq)V(Vq.r))$$ +may be written without ambiguity as +$$V(pK(dq)V(Vq.r))$$ +but nothing more can be dropped without altering its value. + +Another peculiarity of notation, which will occasionally be +required, shows {\sl which portions} of a complex product are affected +by an operator. Thus we write +$$\nabla S\sigma\tau$$ +if $\nabla$ operates on $\sigma$ and also on $\tau$, but +$$\nabla_1S\sigma\tau_1$$ +if it operates on $\tau$ alone. See, in this connection, the last Example +at the end of Chap. IV. below. + +{\bf 134}. The beginner may expect to be at first a little puzzled +with this aspect of the notation; but, as he learns more of the +subject, he will soon see clearly the distinction between such an +expression as +$$S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma$$ +where we may omit at pleasure either the point or the first V +without altering the value, and the very different one +$$S\alpha\beta .V\beta\gamma$$ +which admits of no such changes, without alteration of its value. + +All these simplifications of notation are, in fact, merely examples +of the transformations of quaternion expressions to which part of +this Chapter has been devoted. Thus, to take a very simple ex +ample, we easily see that +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma +&=&SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma +=S.\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma +=S\alpha V.\beta V\beta\gamma +=-S\alpha V.(V\beta\gamma)\beta\\ +&=&S\alpha V.(V\gamma\beta)\beta +=S.\alpha V(\gamma\beta)\beta +=S.V(\gamma\beta)\beta\alpha +=SV\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha\\ +&=&S.\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha +=S.K(\beta\gamma)V\beta\alpha +=S.\beta\gamma KV\beta\alpha +=-S.\beta\gamma V\beta\alpha\\ +&=&S.V\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha,\textrm{\&c., \&c.} +\end{array} +$$ + +The above group does not nearly exhaust the list of even the simpler +ways of expressing the given quantity. We recommend it to the +careful study of the reader. He will find it advisable, at first, to +use stops and brackets pretty freely; but will gradually learn to +dispense with those which are not absolutely necessary to prevent +ambiguity. + +There is, however, one additional point of notation to which +the reader s attention should be most carefully directed. A very +simple instance will suffice. Take the expressions +$$ +\frac{\beta}{\gamma}.\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}\;\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\;\; +\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha} +$$ + +The first of these is +$$\beta\gamma^{-1}.\gamma\alpha^{-1}=\beta\alpha^{-1}$$ +and presents no difficulty. But the second, though at first sight +it closely resembles the first, is in general totally different in +value, being in fact equal to +$$\beta\gamma\alpha^{-1}\gamma^{-1}$$ + +For the denominator must be treated as {\sl one quaternion}. If, +then, we write +$$\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha}=q$$ +we have +$$\beta\gamma=q\gamma\alpha$$ +so that, as stated above, +$$q=\beta\gamma\alpha^{-1}\gamma^{-1}$$ +We see therefore that +$$ +\frac{\beta}{\gamma}.\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}= +\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= +\frac{\beta\gamma}{\alpha\gamma};\;\;\;\textrm{but {\sl not}}\;\;= +\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha} +$$ + +\section{Examples to Chapter 3} + +{\bf 1}. Investigate, by quaternions, the requisite formulae for +changing from any one set of coordinate axes to another ; and +derive from your general result, and also from special investiga +tions, the usual expressions for the following cases: + +\begin{itemize} +\item[(a)] Rectangular axes turned about z through any angle. + +\item[(b)] Rectangular axes turned into any new position by rota +tion about a line equally inclined to the three. + +\item[(c)] Rectangular turned to oblique, one of the new axes +lying in each of the former coordinate planes. +\end{itemize} + +{\bf 2}. Point out the distinction between +$$ +\left(\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha}\right)^2\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; +\frac{(\alpha+\beta)^2}{\alpha^2} +$$ +and find the value of their difference. + +If +$$ +T\beta/\alpha=1\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; +U\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha}=\left(\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} +$$ + +Show also that +$$ +\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha-\beta}= +\frac{V\alpha\beta}{1+S\alpha\beta^{'}} +$$ +and +$$ +\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha+\beta}= +-\frac{V\alpha\beta}{1-S\alpha\beta^{'}} +$$ +provided $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be unit-vectors. If these conditions are not +fulfilled, what are the true values ? + +{\bf 3}. Show that, whatever quaternion $r$ may be, the expression +$$\alpha r+r\beta$$ +in which $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are any two unit- vectors, is reducible to the +form +$$l(\alpha+\beta)+m(\alpha\beta-1)$$ +where $l$ and $m$ are scalars. + +{\bf 4}. If $Tp=T\alpha=T\beta=1$, and $S.\alpha\beta\rho=0$ +show by direct transformations that +$$S.U(\rho-\alpha)U(\rho-\beta)=\pm\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}(1-S\alpha\beta)}$$ +Interpret this theorem geometrically. + +{\bf 5}. If $S\alpha\beta=0$, $T\alpha=T\beta=1$, show that +$$ +(1+\alpha^{m})\beta= +2\cos\frac{m\pi}{4}\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}\beta= +2S\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}.\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}\beta +$$ + +{\bf 6}. Put in its simplest form the equation +$$ +\rho S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= +aV.V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta+ +bV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma+ +cV.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha +$$ +and show that +$$a=S.\beta\gamma\rho,\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ + +{\bf 7}. Show that any quaternion may in general, in one way only, +be expressed as a homogeneous linear function of four given +quaternions. Point out the nature of the exceptional cases. Also +find the simplest form in which any quaternion may generally be +expressed in terms of two given quaternions. + +{\bf 8}. Prove the following theorems, and exhibit them as properties +of determinants : + +\begin{itemize} +\item[(a)] $S.(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha)= +2S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ +\item[(b)]$S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= +-(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2$ +\item[(c)]$S.V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha) +V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta)=-4(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2$ +\item[(d)]$S.V(V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma)V(V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha) +V(V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta)=-(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^4$ +\item[(e)]$S.\delta\epsilon\zeta=-16(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^4$\\ +where +$$\delta=V(V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha))$$ +$$\epsilon=V(V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha)V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta))$$ +$$\zeta=V(V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta)V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma))$$ +\end{itemize} + +{\bf 9}. Prove the common formula for the product of two determinants +of the third order in the form +$$ +S.\alpha\beta\gamma S.\alpha_1\beta_1\gamma_1= +\left| +\begin{array}{ccc} +S\alpha\alpha_1 & S\beta\alpha_1 & S\gamma\alpha_1\\ +S\alpha\beta_1 & S\beta\beta_1 & S\gamma\beta_1\\ +S\alpha\gamma_1 & S\beta\gamma_1 & S\gamma\gamma_1 +\end{array} +\right| +$$ + +{\bf 10}. Show that, whatever be the eight vectors involved, +$$ +\left| +\begin{array}{cccc} +S\alpha\alpha_1 & S\alpha\beta_1 & S\alpha\gamma_1 & S\alpha\delta_1\\ +S\beta\alpha_1 & S\beta\beta_1 & S\beta\gamma_1 & S\beta\delta_1\\ +S\gamma\alpha_1 & S\gamma\beta_1 & S\gamma\gamma_1 & S\gamma\delta_1\\ +S\delta\alpha_1 & S\delta\beta_1 & S\delta\gamma_1 & S\delta\delta_1 +\end{array} +\right| +=S.\alpha\beta\gamma S. \beta_1\gamma_1\delta_1S\alpha_1(\delta-\delta)=0 +$$ + +If the single term $S\alpha\alpha_1$, be changed to $S\alpha_0\alpha_1$, +the value of the determinant is +$$S.\beta\gamma\delta S.\beta_1\gamma_1\delta_1 S\alpha_1(\alpha_0-\alpha)$$ + +State these as propositions in spherical trigonometry. + +Form the corresponding null determinant for any two groups +of five quaternions : and give its geometrical interpretation. + +{\bf 11}. If, in \S 102, $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be three mutually +perpendicular vectors, can anything be predicated as to $\alpha_1$, +$\beta_1$, $\gamma_1$? If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be rectangular +unit-vectors, what of $\alpha_1$, $\beta_1$, $\gamma_1$? + +{\bf 12}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\alpha^{'}$, $\beta^{'}$, +$\gamma^{'}$ be two sets of rectangular unit-vectors, show that +$$ +S\alpha\alpha^{'}= +S\gamma\beta^{'}S\beta\gamma^{'}= +S\beta\beta^{'}S\gamma\gamma^{'}\;\;\;\textrm{\&c. \&c.} +$$ + +{\bf 13}. The lines bisecting pairs of opposite sides of a quadrilateral +(plane or gauche) are perpendicular to each other when the +diagonals of the quadrilateral are equal. + +{\bf 14}. Show that +\begin{itemize} +\item [(a)]$S.q^2=2S^2q-T^2q$ +\item [(b)]$S.q^3=S^3q-3SqT^2Vq$ +\item [(c)]$\alpha^2\beta^2\gamma^2+S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma= +V^2.\alpha\beta\gamma$ +\item [(d)]$S(V.\alpha\beta\gamma V.\beta\gamma\alpha V.\gamma\alpha\beta)= +4S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ +\item [(e)]$V.q^3=(2S^2q-T^2Vq)Vq$ +\item [(f)]$qUVq^{-1}=-Sq.UVq+TVq$ +\end{itemize} + +and interpret each as a formula in plane or spherical trigonometry. + +{\bf 15}. If $q$ be an undetermined quaternion, what loci are represented by +\begin{itemize} +\item[(a)]$(q\alpha^{-1})^2=-a^2$ +\item[(b)]$(q\alpha^{-1})^4=a^4$ +\item[(c)]$S.(q-\alpha)^2=a^2$ +\end{itemize} +where $a$ is any given scalar and $\alpha$ any given vector ? + +{\bf 16}. If $q$ be any quaternion, show that the equation +$$Q^2=q^2$$ +is satisfied, not alone by $Q = \pm q$, but also by +$$Q=\pm \sqrt{-1}(Sq.UVq-TVq)$$ + +\begin{flushright} +(Hamilton, {\sl Lectures}, p. 673.) +\end{flushright} + +{\bf 17}. Wherein consists the difference between the two equations +$$ +T^2\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; +\left(\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2=-1 +$$ + +What is the full interpretation of each, $\alpha$ being a given, and p an +undetermined, vector? + +{\bf 18}. Find the {\sl full} consequences of each of the following +groups of equations, as regards both the unknown vector $\rho$ and +the given vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$: +$$ +\begin{array}{crcrcr} + & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0 & & S\alpha\rho=0 & & S\alpha\rho=0\\ +(a) & & (b) & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0 & (c) & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0\\ + & S.\beta\gamma\rho=0 & & S\beta\rho=0 & & S.\alpha\beta\gamma\rho=0 +\end{array} +$$ + +{\bf 19}. From \S\S 74, 110, show that, if $\epsilon$ +be any unit-vector, and $m$ any scalar, +$$\epsilon^{m}=\cos\frac{m\pi}{2}+\epsilon\sin\frac{m\pi}{2}$$ +Hence show that if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be radii drawn to the corners of a triangle on the unit-sphere, +whose spherical excess is $m$ right angles, +$$ +\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\beta+\gamma}. +\frac{\gamma+\alpha}{\alpha+\beta}. +\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\gamma+\alpha}= +\alpha^m +$$ +Also that, if $A$, $B$, $C$ be the angles of the triangle, we have +$$ +\gamma^{\frac{2C}{\pi}} +\beta^{\frac{2B}{\pi}} +\alpha^{\frac{2A}{\pi}} +=-1 +$$ + +{\bf 20}. Show that for any three vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ we have +$$ +(U\alpha\beta)^2+(U\beta\gamma)^2+(U\alpha\gamma)^2+(U.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2+ +4U\alpha\gamma .SU\alpha\beta SU\beta\gamma=-2 +$$ + +\begin{flushright} +(Hamilton, {\sl Elements}, p. 388.) +\end{flushright} + +{\bf 21}. If $a_1$, $a_2$, $a_3$, $x$ be any four scalars, +and $\rho_1$, $\rho_2$, $\rho_3$ any three vectors, show that +$$ +(S.\rho_1\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ +(\sum.a_1V\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ +x^2(\sum V\rho_1\rho_2)^2- +$$ +$$ +x^2(\sum.a_1(\rho_2-\rho_3))^2 ++2\prod(x^2+S\rho_1\rho_2+a_1a_2) +$$ +$$ +=2\prod(x^2+\rho^2)+ +2\prod a^2+ +$$ +$$ +\sum\{(x^2+a_1^2+\rho_1^2)((V\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ +2a_2a_3(x^2+S\rho_2\rho_3)-x^2(\rho_2-\rho_3)^2)\} +$$ +where $\displaystyle \prod a^2=a_1^2a_2^2a_3^2$ + +Verify this formula by a simple process in the particular case +$$a_1=a_2=a_3=x=0$$ + +\begin{flushright} +({\sl Ibid}) +\end{flushright} + +{\bf 22}. Eliminate $p$ from the equations +$$V.\beta\rho\alpha\rho=0,\;\;\;S\gamma\rho=0$$ +and state the problem and its solution in a geometrical form. + +{\bf 23}. If $p$, $q$, $r$, $s$ be four versors, such that +$$qp=-sr=\alpha$$ +$$rq=-ps=\beta$$ +where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are unit-vectors; show that +$$S(V.VsVqV.VrVp)=0$$ +Interpret this as a property of a spherical quadrilateral. + +{\bf 24}. Show that, if $pq$, $rs$, $pr$, and $qs$ be vectors, we have +$$S(V.VpVsV.VqVr)=0$$ + +{\bf 25}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be unit-vectors, +$$ +V\beta\gamma S.\alpha\beta\gamma= +-\alpha(1-S^2\beta\gamma)- +\beta(S\alpha\gamma S\beta r + S\alpha\beta)- +\gamma(S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma+S\alpha\gamma) +$$ + +{\bf 26}. If $i$, $j$, $k$, $i^{'}$, $j^{'}$, $k^{'}$, +be two sets of rectangular unit-vectors, show that +$$ +\begin{array}{rcl} +S.Vii^{'}Vjj^{'}Vkk^{'}&=&(Sij^{'})^2-(Sji^{'})^2\\ + &=&(Sjk^{'})^2-(Skj^{'})^2=\textrm{\&c.} +\end{array} +$$ +and find the values of the vector of the same product. + +{\bf 27}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ +be a rectangular unit-vector system, show that, +whatever be $\lambda$, $\mu$, $\nu$ +$$\lambda S^2i\alpha +\mu S^2j\gamma +\nu S^2k\beta$$ +$$\lambda S^2k\gamma +\mu S^2i\beta +\nu S^2j\alpha$$ +and +$$\lambda S^2j\beta +\mu S^2k\alpha +\nu S^2i\gamma$$ +are coplanar vectors. What is the connection between this and +the result of the preceding example ? + +\vfill +\newpage +\section{Axiom Examples} +The basic operation for creating quaternions is {\bf quatern}. +This is a quaternion over the rational numbers. +\spadcommand{q:=quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1)} +$$ +{2 \over {11}} -{8 \ i}+{{3 \over 4} \ j}+k +$$ +\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} + +This is a quaternion over the integers. +\spadcommand{r:=quatern(1,2,3,4)} +$$ +1+{2 \ i}+{3 \ j}+{4 \ k} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Quaternion Integer} + +We can also construct quaternions with complex components. +First we construct a complex number. +\spadcommand{b:=complex(3,4)} +$$ +3+{4 \ i} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} +and then we use it as a component in a quaternion. +\spadcommand{s:=quatern(3,1/7,b,2)} +$$ +3+{{1 \over 7} \ i}+{{\left( 3+{4 \ i} \right)}\ j}+{2 \ k} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Quaternion Complex Fraction Integer} +Notice that the $i$ component of the complex number has no +relation to the $i$ component of the quaternion even though +they use the same symbol by convention. + +The four parts of a quaternion are the real part, the $i$ imaginary +part, the $j$ imaginary part, and the $k$ imaginary part. The +{\bf real} function returns the real part. +\spadcommand{real q} +$$ +2 \over {11} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} + +The {\bf imagI} function returns the $i$ imaginary part. +\spadcommand{imagI q} +$$ +-8 +$$ +\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} + +The {\bf imagJ} function returns the $j$ imaginary part. +\spadcommand{imagJ q} +$$ +3 \over 4 +$$ +\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} + +The {\bf imagK} function returns the $k$ imaginary part. +\spadcommand{imagK q} +$$ +1 +$$ +\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} + +Quaternions satisfy a very fundamental relationship between the parts, +namely that +$$i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1$$. This is similar to the requirement +in complex numbers of the form $a+bi$ that $i^2 = -1$. + +The set of quaternions is denoted by $\mathbb{H}$, whereas the integers +are denoted by $\mathbb{Z}$ and the complex numbers by $\mathbb{C}$. + +Quaternions are not commutative which means that in general +$$AB \ne BA$$ +for any two quaternions, A and B. So, for instance, +\spadcommand{q*r} +$$ +{{437} \over {44}} -{{{84} \over {11}} \ i}+{{{1553} \over {44}} \ j} +-{{{523} \over {22}} \ k} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} +\spadcommand{r*q} +$$ +{{437} \over {44}} -{{{84} \over {11}} \ i} -{{{1439} \over {44}} \ +j}+{{{599} \over {22}} \ k} +$$ +\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} +and these are clearly not equal. + +Complex $2\times2$ matrices form an alternate, equivalent +representation of quaternions. These matrices have the form: +$$ +\left[ +\begin{array}{cc} +u & v \\ +-\overline{v} & \overline{u} +\end{array} +\right] +$$ += +$$ +\left[ +\begin{array}{cc} +a+bi & c+di \\ +-c+di & a-bi +\end{array} +\right] +$$ +where $u$ and $v$ are complex, $\overline{u}$ is complex conjugate +of $u$, $\overline{z}$ is the complex conjugate of $z$, and a,b,c, +and d are real. + +Within the quaternion each component operator represents a basis +element in $\mathbb{R}^4$ thus: +$$ +1 = +\left[ +\begin{array}{cccc} +1 & 0 & 0 & 0\\ +0 & 1 & 0 & 1\\ +0 & 0 & 1 & 0\\ +0 & 0 & 0 & 1 +\end{array} +\right] +$$ + +$$ +i = +\left[ +\begin{array}{cccc} +0 & 1 & 0 & 0\\ +-1 & 0 & 0 & 1\\ +0 & 0 & 0 & 1\\ +0 & 0 & -1 & 0 +\end{array} +\right] +$$ + + \chapter{Groebner Basis} Groebner Basis \chapter{Greatest Common Divisor} @@ -2514,6 +7682,21 @@ Literate Programming''\\ \bibitem{31} Daly, Timothy, "The Axiom Literate Documentation"\\ {\bf http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/documentation.html} \bibitem{32} {\bf http://www.puffinwarellc.com/p3a.htm} +\bibitem{33} Tait, P.G., +{\it An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions} \\ +C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, +Ave Maria Lane 1890 +\bibitem{34} Knuth, Donald, {\it The \TeX{}book} \\ +Reading, Massachusetts, +Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., +1984. ISBN 0-201-13448-9 +\bibitem{35} Hathway, Arthur S., "A Primer Of Quaternions" (1896) +\bibitem{36} Conway, John H. and Smith, Derek, A., +"On Quaternions and Octonions", A.K Peters, Natick, MA. (2003) +ISBN 1-56881-134-9 +\bibitem{37} http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Quaternion.html \end{thebibliography} +\end{document} + \printindex \end{document} diff --git a/books/bookvol10.4.pamphlet b/books/bookvol10.4.pamphlet index 5f0db1e..d7eaf5c 100644 --- a/books/bookvol10.4.pamphlet +++ b/books/bookvol10.4.pamphlet @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ %% %% pagepic adds an image and an index entry %% -\newcommand{\pagepic}[2]{% e.g. \pagepic{pathandfile}{abb} -\includegraphics{#1}% +\newcommand{\pagepic}[3]{% e.g. \pagepic{pathandfile}{abb}{scale} +\includegraphics[scale=#3]{#1}\\% \index{images!#2}} %% %% pageto is a forward link to a referenced page @@ -128520,6 +128520,145 @@ QuotientFieldCategoryFunctions2(A, B, R, S): Exports == Impl where @ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\section{package QUATCT2 QuaternionCategoryFunctions2} +<>= +)set break resume +)spool QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.output +)set message test on +)set message auto off +)clear all + +(1) -> )read af +--S 1 of 4 +q := quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1) +--R +--R +--R 2 3 +--R (1) -- - 8i + - j + k +--R 11 4 +--R Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer +--E 1 + +--S 2 of 4 +f(a:Fraction Integer):Complex Fraction Integer == a::Complex Fraction Integer +--R +--R Function declaration f : Fraction Integer -> Complex Fraction +--R Integer has been added to workspace. +--R Type: Void +--E 3 + +--S 3 of 4 +map(f,q) +--R +--R Compiling function f with type Fraction Integer -> Complex Fraction +--R Integer +--R +--R 2 3 +--R (3) -- - 8i + - j + k +--R 11 4 +--R Type: Quaternion Complex Fraction Integer +--E 3 + +--S 4 of 4 +)show QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 +--R +--R QuaternionCategoryFunctions2(QR: QuaternionCategory R,R: CommutativeRing,QS: QuaternionCategory S,S: CommutativeRing) is a package constructor +--R Abbreviation for QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 is QUATCT2 +--R This constructor is exposed in this frame. +--R Issue )edit quat.spad.pamphlet to see algebra source code for QUATCT2 +--R +--R------------------------------- Operations -------------------------------- +--R map : ((R -> S),QR) -> QS +--R +--E 4 + +)spool +)lisp (bye) +@ +<>= +==================================================================== +QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 examples +==================================================================== + +The package QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 provides a function map +to convert an expression in Quaternion(R) to an expression in +Quaternion(S) using the function f. + +q := quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1) + + 2 3 + -- - 8i + - j + k + 11 4 + Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer + +f(a:Fraction Integer):Complex Fraction Integer == a::Complex Fraction Integer + Function declaration f : Fraction Integer -> Complex Fraction + Integer has been added to workspace. + Type: Void + +map(f,q) + Compiling function f with type Fraction Integer -> Complex Fraction + Integer + + 2 3 + -- - 8i + - j + k + 11 4 + Type: Quaternion Complex Fraction Integer + + +See Also: +o )show QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 + +@ +\pagehead{QuaternionCategoryFunctions2}{QUATCT2} +\pagepic{ps/v104quaternioncategoryfunctions2.ps}{QUATCT2}{1.00} + +{\bf Exports:}\\ +\cross{QUATCT2}{map} + +<>= +)abbrev package QUATCT2 QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 +++ Author: Robert S. Sutor +++ Date Created: 23 May 1990 +++ Change History: +++ 23 May 1990 +++ Basic Operations: map +++ Related Constructors: QuaternionCategory, Quaternion +++ Also See: +++ AMS Classifications: 11R52 +++ Keywords: quaternions, division ring, map +++ Description: +++ \spadtype{QuaternionCategoryFunctions2} implements functions between +++ two quaternion domains. The function \spadfun{map} is used by +++ the system interpreter to coerce between quaternion types. + +QuaternionCategoryFunctions2(QR,R,QS,S) : Exports == + Implementation where + R : CommutativeRing + S : CommutativeRing + QR : QuaternionCategory R + QS : QuaternionCategory S + Exports == with + map: (R -> S, QR) -> QS + ++ map(f,u) maps f onto the component parts of the quaternion u. + ++ to convert an expression in Quaterion(R) to Quaternion(S) + ++ + ++X f(a:FRAC(INT)):COMPLEX(FRAC(INT)) == a::COMPLEX(FRAC(INT)) + ++X q:=quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1) + ++X map(f,q) + + Implementation == add + map(fn : R -> S, u : QR): QS == + quatern(fn real u, fn imagI u, fn imagJ u, fn imagK u)$QS + +@ +<>= +"QUATCT2" [color="#FF4488",href="bookvol10.4.pdf#nameddest=QUATCT2"] +"ACFS" [color="#4488FF",href="bookvol10.2.pdf#nameddest=QUATCAT"] +"QUATCT2" -> "QUATCAT" + +@ +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Chapter R} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{package REP RadicalEigenPackage} diff --git a/books/ps/v104quaternioncategoryfunctions2.ps b/books/ps/v104quaternioncategoryfunctions2.ps new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf2f1d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/ps/v104quaternioncategoryfunctions2.ps @@ -0,0 +1,268 @@ +%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 +%%Creator: Graphviz version 2.20.2 (Mon Mar 30 10:09:11 UTC 2009) +%%For: (root) root +%%Title: pic +%%Pages: (atend) +%%BoundingBox: (atend) +%%EndComments +save +%%BeginProlog +/DotDict 200 dict def +DotDict begin + +/setupLatin1 { +mark +/EncodingVector 256 array def + EncodingVector 0 + +ISOLatin1Encoding 0 255 getinterval putinterval +EncodingVector 45 /hyphen put + +% Set up ISO Latin 1 character encoding +/starnetISO { + dup dup findfont dup length dict begin + { 1 index /FID ne { def }{ pop pop } ifelse + } forall + /Encoding EncodingVector def + currentdict end definefont +} def +/Times-Roman starnetISO def +/Times-Italic starnetISO def +/Times-Bold starnetISO def +/Times-BoldItalic starnetISO def +/Helvetica starnetISO def +/Helvetica-Oblique starnetISO def +/Helvetica-Bold starnetISO def +/Helvetica-BoldOblique starnetISO def +/Courier starnetISO def +/Courier-Oblique starnetISO def +/Courier-Bold starnetISO def +/Courier-BoldOblique starnetISO def +cleartomark +} bind def + +%%BeginResource: procset graphviz 0 0 +/coord-font-family /Times-Roman def +/default-font-family /Times-Roman def +/coordfont coord-font-family findfont 8 scalefont def + +/InvScaleFactor 1.0 def +/set_scale { + dup 1 exch div /InvScaleFactor exch def + scale +} bind def + +% styles +/solid { [] 0 setdash } bind def +/dashed { [9 InvScaleFactor mul dup ] 0 setdash } bind def +/dotted { [1 InvScaleFactor mul 6 InvScaleFactor mul] 0 setdash } bind def +/invis {/fill {newpath} def /stroke {newpath} def /show {pop newpath} def} bind def +/bold { 2 setlinewidth } bind def +/filled { } bind def +/unfilled { } bind def +/rounded { } bind def +/diagonals { } bind def + +% hooks for setting color +/nodecolor { sethsbcolor } bind def +/edgecolor { sethsbcolor } bind def +/graphcolor { sethsbcolor } bind def +/nopcolor {pop pop pop} bind def + +/beginpage { % i j npages + /npages exch def + /j exch def + /i exch def + /str 10 string def + npages 1 gt { + gsave + coordfont setfont + 0 0 moveto + (\() show i str cvs show (,) show j str cvs show (\)) show + grestore + } if +} bind def + +/set_font { + findfont exch + scalefont setfont +} def + +% draw text fitted to its expected width +/alignedtext { % width text + /text exch def + /width exch def + gsave + width 0 gt { + [] 0 setdash + text stringwidth pop width exch sub text length div 0 text ashow + } if + grestore +} def + +/boxprim { % xcorner ycorner xsize ysize + 4 2 roll + moveto + 2 copy + exch 0 rlineto + 0 exch rlineto + pop neg 0 rlineto + closepath +} bind def + +/ellipse_path { + /ry exch def + /rx exch def + /y exch def + /x exch def + matrix currentmatrix + newpath + x y translate + rx ry scale + 0 0 1 0 360 arc + setmatrix +} bind def + +/endpage { showpage } bind def +/showpage { } def + +/layercolorseq + [ % layer color sequence - 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SHELL=bash @ -\subsection{The SPADFILES list} -Note that we have excluded {\bf mlift.spad.jhd} from this list. -We need to figure out which mlift.spad to keep. - -<>= - -SPADFILES= \ - ${OUTSRC}/quat.spad - -@ \subsection{The ALDORFILES list} <>= @@ -15830,8 +15820,7 @@ DOCFILES= \ ${DOC}/ndftip.as.dvi \ ${DOC}/nepip.as.dvi \ ${DOC}/noptip.as.dvi ${DOC}/nqip.as.dvi \ - ${DOC}/nrc.as.dvi ${DOC}/nsfip.as.dvi \ - ${DOC}/quat.spad.dvi + ${DOC}/nrc.as.dvi ${DOC}/nsfip.as.dvi @ \section{The Makefile Stanzas} @@ -16507,6 +16496,7 @@ SPADHELP=\ ${HELP}/PartialFraction.help \ ${HELP}/Permanent.help ${HELP}/Permutation.help \ ${HELP}/Polynomial.help ${HELP}/Quaternion.help \ + ${HELP}/QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help \ ${HELP}/Queue.help \ ${HELP}/RadixExpansion.help ${HELP}/RealClosure.help \ ${HELP}/RealSolvePackage.help ${HELP}/RegularTriangularSet.help \ @@ -16589,6 +16579,7 @@ REGRESS= Any.regress \ Permanent.regress Permutation.regress \ PlaneAlgebraicCurvePlot.regress Plot.regress \ Polynomial.regress Quaternion.regress \ + QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.regress \ Queue.regress \ RadixExpansion.regress RealClosure.regress \ RealSolvePackage.regress RegularTriangularSet.regress \ @@ -17612,6 +17603,18 @@ ${HELP}/Quaternion.help: ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.3.pamphlet >${INPUT}/Quaternion.input @echo "Quaternion (QUAT)" >>${HELPFILE} +${HELP}/QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help: ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.4.pamphlet + @echo 7945 create QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help from \ + ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.4.pamphlet + @${TANGLE} -R"QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help" \ + ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.4.pamphlet \ + >${HELP}/QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help + @cp ${HELP}/QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.help ${HELP}/QUATCT2.help + @${TANGLE} -R"QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.input" \ + ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.4.pamphlet \ + >${INPUT}/QuaternionCategoryFunctions2.input + @echo "QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 (QUATCT2)" >>${HELPFILE} + ${HELP}/Queue.help: ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.3.pamphlet @echo 7950 create Queue.help from ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.3.pamphlet @${TANGLE} -R"Queue.help" ${BOOKS}/bookvol10.3.pamphlet \ @@ -18021,7 +18024,7 @@ everything: check lib db cmd gloss @ echo OBJ= ${OBJ} MNT= ${MNT} O=${O} LISP=${LISP} BYE=${BYE} #src: ${AS} -src: ${SPADFILES} ${ORDER} +src: ${ORDER} @ echo 4304 Building nrlibS from spad sources # @ (cd ${MID} ; \ diff --git a/src/algebra/quat.spad.pamphlet b/src/algebra/quat.spad.pamphlet deleted file mode 100644 index 9703b0e..0000000 --- a/src/algebra/quat.spad.pamphlet +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5294 +0,0 @@ -\documentclass{book} -\usepackage{graphicx} -\usepackage{amssymb} -\usepackage{axiom} -%%% We add some special commands to handle Axiom portions of the document. -\makeindex - -%% We need to use a dagger to mark footnotes because numbers can be -%% mistaken as superscripts -\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}} -%% Before each footnote we explicitly set the counter to 1 so that -%% when it increments it prints a dagger -\setcounter{footnote}{1} - -\begin{document} -\begin{center} -\bigskip \huge -AXIOM QUATERNIONS - -\bigskip\bigskip -\footnotesize BY - -\bigskip -\large Peter Guthrie Tait, Robert S. Sutor, Timothy Daly - -\end{center} -\section*{Preface} -\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Preface} -The Theory of Quaternions is due to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, -Royal Astronomer of Ireland, who presented his first paper on the -subject to the Royal Irish Academy in 1843. His Lectures on -Quaternions were published in 1853, and his Elements, in 1866, -shortly after his death. The Elements of Quaternions by Tait\cite{7} is -the accepted text-book for advanced students. - -Large portions of this file are derived from a public domain version -of Tait's book combined with the algebra available in Axiom. -The purpose is to develop a tutorial introduction to the Axiom -domain and its uses. -\vfill -\newpage -\tableofcontents -\vfill -\newpage - - -\chapter{Quaternions} - -\section{Vectors, and their Composition} - -{\bf 1}. For at least two centuries the geometrical representation -of the negative and imaginary algebraic quantities, $-1$ and $\sqrt{-1}$ -has been a favourite subject of speculation with mathematicians. -The essence of almost all of the proposed processes consists in -employing such expressions to indicate the DIRECTION, not the -{\sl length}, of lines. - -{\bf 2}. Thus it was long ago seen that if positive quantities were -measured off in one direction along a fixed line, a useful and lawful -convention enabled us to express negative quantities of the same -kind by simply laying them off on the same line in the opposite -direction. This convention is an essential part of the Cartesian -method, and is constantly employed in Analytical Geometry and -Applied Mathematics. - -{\bf 3}. Wallis, towards the end of the seventeenth century, proposed -to represent the impossible roots of a quadratic equation by going -{\sl out} of the line on which, if real, they would have been laid off. -This construction is equivalent to the consideration of $\sqrt{-1}$ as a -directed unit-line perpendicular to that on which real quantities -are measured. - -{\bf 4}. In the usual notation of Analytical Geometry of two -dimensions, when rectangular axes are employed, this amounts -to reckoning each unit of length along $Oy$ as $+\sqrt{-1}$, and on -$Oy^{'}$ as $-\sqrt{-1}$ ; while on $Ox$ each unit is $+1$, and on -$Ox$ it is $-1$. - -If we look at these four lines in circular order, i.e. in the order of -positive rotation (that of the northern hemisphere of the earth -about its axis, or {\sl opposite} to that of the hands of a watch), they -give -$$ 1, \sqrt{-1}, -1, -\sqrt{-1}$$ - -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -In Axiom the same elements would be written as complex numbers -which are constructed using the function {\bf complex}: -\spadcommand{complex(1,0)} -$$1$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{complex(0,1)} -$$\%i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{complex(-1,0)} -$$-1$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{complex(0,-1)} -$$-i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -Note that \%i is of type Complex(Integer), that is, the imaginary -part of a complex number. The apparently equivalent expression -\spadcommand{sqrt(-1)} -$$\sqrt{-1}$$ -\returnType{Type: AlgebraicNumber} -has the type AlgebraicNumber which means that it is the root of -a polynomial with rational coefficients.\\ -} - -In this series each expression is derived from that which precedes -it by multiplication by the factor $\sqrt{-1}$. Hence we may consider -$\sqrt{-1}$ as an operator, analogous to a handle perpendicular to the -plane of $xy$, whose effect on any line in that plane is to make it -rotate (positively) about the origin through an angle of $90^{\circ}$. - -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -In Axiom -\spadcommand{\%i*\%i} -$$-1$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -} - -{\bf 5}. In such a system, (which seems to have been first developed, -in 1805, by Bu\'ee) a point in the plane of reference is defined by a -single imaginary expression. Thus $a + b\sqrt{-1}$ may be considered -as a single quantity, denoting the point, $P$, whose coordinates are -$a$ and $b$. Or, it may be used as an expression for the line $OP$ -joining that point with the origin. In the latter sense, the expression -$a + b\sqrt{-1}$ implicitly contains the {\sl direction}, as well as the -{\sl length}, of this line ; since, as we see at once, the direction is -inclined at an angle $\tan^{-1}(b/a)$ to the axis of $x$, -and the length is $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$. Thus, say we have -$$OP = a + b\sqrt{-1}$$ -the line $OP$ considered as that by which we pass from one -extremity, $O$, to the other, $P$. In this sense it is called a VECTOR. -Considering, in the plane, any other vector, -$$OQ = a^{'}+b^{'}\sqrt{-1}$$ - -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -In order to created superscripted variables we use the superscript -function from the SYMBOL domain. So we can create $a^{'}$ as ``ap'' -(that is, ``a-prime'') and $b^{'}$ as ``bp'' (``b-prime'') thus -(also note that the underscore character is Axiom's escape character -which removes any special meaning of the next character, in this case, -the quote character): -\spadcommand{ap:=superscript(a,[\_'])} -$$a^{'}$$ -\returnType{Type: Symbol} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{bp:=superscript(b,[\_'])} -$$b^{'}$$ -\returnType{Type: Symbol} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -at this point we can type -\spadcommand{ap+bp*\%i} -$$a^{'}+b^{'}\ \%i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} -} - -the addition of these two lines obviously gives -$$OR = a + a^{'} + (b + b^{'})\sqrt{-1}$$ - -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -In Axiom the computation looks like: -\spadcommand{op:=complex(a,b)} -$$a + b\ \%i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{oq:=complex(ap,bp)} -$$a^{'} + b^{'}\ \%i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} -} -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{op + oq} -$$a + a^{'} + (b + b^{'})\%i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} -} - -and we see that the sum is the diagonal of the parallelogram on -$OP$, $OQ$. This is the law of the composition of simultaneous -velocities; and it contains, of course, the law of subtraction of one -directed line from another. - -{\bf 6}. Operating on the first of these symbols by the factor $\sqrt{-1}$, -it becomes $- b + a\sqrt{-1}$; and now, of course, denotes the point -whose $x$ and $y$ coordinates are $- b$ and $a$; or the line joining this -point with the origin. The length is still $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$, but the angle -the line makes with the axis of $x$ is $\tan^{-1}(- a/b)$; which is -evidently greater by $\pi/2$ than before the operation. - -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{op*complex(0,1)} -$$-b+a\ i$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Polynomial Integer} -} - -{\bf 7}. De Moivre's Theorem tends to lead us still further in the -same direction. In fact, it is easy to see that if we use, instead -of $\sqrt{-1}$, the more general factor $\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha$, -its effect on -any line is to turn it through the (positive) angle $\alpha$. in the plane -of $x$, $y$. [Of course the former factor, $\sqrt{-1}$, is merely the -particular case of this, when $\alpha=\frac{\pi}{2}$]. - -Thus -$$ -\begin{array}{ll} - &(\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha) (a + b \sqrt{-1})\\ -= & a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha + \sqrt{-1} (a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha) -\end{array} -$$ - -by direct multiplication. The reader will at once see that the new -form indicates that a rotation through an angle $\alpha$ has taken place, -if he compares it with the common formulae for turning the coordinate -axes through a given angle. Or, in a less simple manner, thus - -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -Length & = & \sqrt{(a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha)^2 + - (a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha)^2} \\ - & = & \sqrt{a^2 + b^2} -\end{array} -$$ -as before. - -Inclination to axis of $x$ -$$ -\begin{array}{cl} -= & \tan^{-1}{\frac{a \sin \alpha + b \cos \alpha} - {a \cos \alpha - b \sin \alpha}}\\ -= & \tan^{-1}{\frac{\tan \alpha + \frac{b}{a}} - {1 - \frac{b}{a} \tan \alpha}}\\ -= & \alpha + \tan^{-1}{\frac{b}{a}} -\end{array} -$$ - -{\bf 8}. We see now, as it were, why it happens that - -$$(\cos \alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin \alpha)^m = -\cos m\alpha + \sqrt{-1} \sin m\alpha -$$ - -In fact, the first operator produces $m$ successive rotations in the -same direction, each through the angle $\alpha$ ; the second, a single -rotation through the angle $m\alpha$. - -{\bf 9}. It may be interesting, at this stage, to anticipate so far as to -remark that in the theory of Quaternions the analogue of - -$$ -\begin{array}{lclr} - & \textrm{ } & \cos \theta + \sqrt{-1} \sin \theta &\\ -\textrm{is} & \textrm{ } & \cos \theta + \omega \sin \theta &\\ -\textrm{where} & \textrm{ } & \omega^2 = -1 & \\ -\end{array} -$$ - -Here, however, $\omega$ is not the algebraic $\sqrt{-1}$, but is -{\sl any directed unit-line} whatever in space. - -{\bf 10}. In the present century Argand, Warren, Mourey, and -others, extended the results of Wallis and Bu\'ee. They attempted -to express as a line the product of two lines each represented by a -symbol such $a+b\sqrt{-1}$. To a certain extent they succeeded, -but all their results remained confined to two dimensions. - -The product, $\prod$, of two such lines was defined as the fourth -proportional to unity and the two lines, thus - -$$ -\begin{array}{lclr} - & \textrm{ } & -1 : a+b\sqrt{-1} :: a^{'}+b^{'}\sqrt{-1} : \prod\\ -\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & -\prod = (aa^{'} - bb^{'})+(a^{'}b+b^{'}a)\sqrt{-1} -\end{array} -$$ - -The length of $\prod$ is obviously the product of the lengths of the -factor lines; and its direction makes an angle with the axis of $x$ -which is the sum of those made by the factor lines. From this -result the quotient of two such lines follows immediately. - -{\bf 11}. A very curious speculation, due to Servois and published -in 1813 in Gergonne's {\sl Annales}, is one of the very few, so far as has -been discovered, in which a well-founded guess at a possible mode -of extension to three dimensions is contained. Endeavouring to -extend to {\sl space} the form $a+b\sqrt{-1}$ for the plane, he is guided by -analogy to write for a directed unit-line in space the form - -$$p \cos \alpha + q \cos \beta + r \cos \gamma$$ - -where $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are its inclinations to the three axes. He perceives -easily that $p$, $q$, $r$ must be {\sl non-reals}: -but, he asks, ``seraient-elles -{\sl imaginaires} r\'eductibles \`a la forme g\'en\'erale $A+B\sqrt{-1}$?'' -The $i$,$j$, $k$ of the Quaternion Calculus furnish an answer to this -question. (See Chap. II.) But it may be remarked that, in applying the -idea to lines in a plane, a vector $OP$ will no longer be represented -(as in \S 5) by -$$ -\begin{array}{lclr} - & \textrm{ OP} & = & a + b\sqrt{-1}\\ -\textrm{but by} & \textrm{ OP} & = & pa + qb\\ -\textrm{And if, similarly,} & \textrm{ OQ} & = & pa^{'} + qb^{'}\\ -\end{array} -$$ - -the addition of these two lines gives for $OR$ (which retains its -previous signification) -$$OR = p(a+a^{'} + q(b+b^{'})$$ - -{\bf 12}. Beyond this, few attempts were made, or at least recorded, -in earlier times, to extend the principle to space of three dimensions; -and, though many such had been made before 1843, none, -with the single exception of Hamilton's, have resulted in simple, -practical methods; all, however ingenious, seeming to lead almost -at once to processes and results of fearful complexity. - -For a lucid, complete, and most impartial statement of the -claims of his predecessors in this field we refer to the Preface to -Hamilton's {\sl Lectures on Quaternions}. He there shows how his long -protracted investigations of Sets culminated in this unique system -of tridimensional-space geometry. - -{\bf 13}. It was reserved for Hamilton to discover the use and -properties of a class of symbols which, though all in a certain sense -square roots of -1, may be considered as {\sl real} unit lines, tied down -to no particular direction in space ; the expression for a vector is, -or may be taken to be, -$$ \rho = ix + jy + kz$$ - -but such vector is considered in connection with an {\sl extraspatial} -magnitude $w$, and we have thus the notion of a QUATERNION - -$$w + \rho$$ - -This is the fundamental notion in the singularly elegant, and -enormously powerful, Calculus of Quaternions. - -While the schemes for using the algebraic $\sqrt{-1}$ to indicate -direction make one direction in space expressible by real numbers, -the remainder being imaginaries of some kind, and thus lead to -expressions which are heterogeneous ; Hamilton s system makes all -directions in space equally imaginary, or rather equally real, thereby -ensuring to his Calculus the power of dealing with space -indifferently in all directions. - -In fact, as we shall see, the Quaternion method is independent -of axes or any supposed directions in space, and takes its reference -lines solely from the problem it is applied to. - -{\bf 14}. But, for the purpose of elementary exposition, it is best -to begin by assimilating it as closely as we can to the ordinary -Cartesian methods of Geometry of Three Dimensions, with which -the student is supposed to be, to some extent at least, acquainted. -Such assistance, it will be found, can (as a rule) soon be dispensed -with; and Hamilton regarded any apparent necessity for an oc -casional recurrence to it, in higher applications, as an indication -of imperfect development in the proper methods of the new -Calculus. - -We commence, therefore, with some very elementary geometrical -ideas, relating to the theory of vectors in space. It will subsequently -appear how we are thus led to the notion of a Quaternion. - -{\bf 15}. Suppose we have two points $A$ and $B$ in {\sl space}, and suppose -$A$ given, on how many numbers does $B$'s relative position depend ? - -If we refer to Cartesian coordinates (rectangular or not) we find -that the data required are the excesses of $B$'s three coordinates -over those of $A$. Hence three numbers are required. - -Or we may take polar coordinates. To define the moon's -position with respect to the earth we must have its Geocentric -Latitude and Longitude, or its Right Ascension and Declination, -and, in addition, its distance or radius-vector. {\sl Three} again. - -{\bf 16}. Here it is to be carefully noticed that nothing has been -said of the {\sl actual} coordinates of either A or B, or of the earth -and moon, in space; it is only the {\sl relative} coordinates that are -contemplated. - -Hence any expression, as $\overline{AB}$, denoting a line considered with -reference to direction and currency as well as length, (whatever -may be its actual position in space) contains implicitly {\sl three} -numbers, and all lines parallel and equal to $AB$, and concurrent -with it, depend in the same way upon the same three. Hence, {\sl all -lines which are equal, parallel, and concurrent, may be represented -by a common symbol, and that symbol contains three distinct numbers}. -In this sense a line is called a VECTOR, since by it we pass from -the one extremity, $A$, to the other, $B$, and it may thus be -considered as an instrument which {\sl carries} $A$ to $B$: so that a -vector may be employed to indicate a definite {\sl translation} in space. - -[The term " currency " has been suggested by Cayley for use -instead of the somewhat vague suggestion sometimes taken to -be involved in the word "direction." Thus parallel lines have -the same direction, though they may have similar or opposite -currencies. The definition of a vector essentially includes its -currency.] - -{\bf 17}. We may here remark, once for all, that in establishing a -new Calculus, we are at liberty to give any definitions whatever -of our symbols, provided that no two of these interfere with, or -contradict, each other, and in doing so in Quaternions {sl simplicity} -and (so to speak) {\sl naturalness} were the inventor's aim. - -{\bf 18}. Let $\overline{AB}$ be represented by $\alpha$, we know that -$\alpha$ involves -{\sl three} separate numbers, and that these depend solely upon the -position of $B$ {\sl relatively} to $A$. -Now if $CD$ be equal in length to $AB$ -and if these lines be parallel, and have the same currency, we may -evidently write -$$\overline{CD} = \overline{AB} = \alpha$$ -where it will be seen that the sign of equality between vectors -contains implicitly {\sl equality in length}, {\sl parallelism in direction}, -and {\sl concurrency}. So far we have {\sl extended} the meaning of an -algebraical symbol. And it is to be noticed that an equation -between vectors, as -$$\alpha = \beta$$ -contains {\sl three} distinct equations between mere numbers. - -{\bf 19}. We must now define $+$ (and the meaning of $-$ will follow) -in the new Calculus. Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be any three points, and (with -the above meaning of $=$ ) let -$$\overline{AB} = \alpha, \overline{BC} = \beta, \overline{AC} = \gamma$$ -If we define $+$ (in accordance with the idea (\S 16) that a vector -represents a {\sl translation}) by the equation -$$ -\begin{array}{lcl} - & \textrm{ } & \alpha + \beta = \gamma\\ - & & \\ -\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & -\overline{AB} + \overline{BC} = \overline{AC} -\end{array} -$$ -we contradict nothing that precedes, but we at once introduce the -idea that {\sl vectors are to be compounded}, -{\sl in direction and magnitude}, -{\sl like simultaneous velocities}. A reason for this may be seen in -another way if we remember that by {\sl adding} the (algebraic) differences -of the Cartesian coordinates of $B$ and $A$, to those of the -coordinates of $C$ and $B$, we get those of the coordinates of $C$ and -$A$. Hence these coordinates enter {\sl linearly} into the expression for -a vector. (See, again, \S 5.) - -{\bf 20}. But we also see that if $C$ and $A$ coincide (and $C$ may be -{\sl any} point) -$$\overline{AC} = 0$$ -for no vector is then required to carry $A$ to $C$. Hence the above -relation may be written, in this case, -$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BA} = 0$$ -or, introducing, and by the same act defining, the symbol $-$, -$$\overline{AB} = -\overline{BA}$$ - -Hence, {\sl the symbol $-$, applied to a vector, simply shows that its -currency is to be reversed}. -And this is consistent with all that precedes; for instance, -$$ -\begin{array}{lcrcl} - & \textrm{ } & \overline{AB} + \overline{BC} &=& \overline{AC}\\ -\textrm{and} & \textrm{ } & \overline{AB} = \overline{AC} &-& \overline{BC} \\ -\textrm{or} & \textrm{ } & = \overline{AC} &+& \overline{CB} \\ -\end{array} -$$ -are evidently but different expressions of the same truth. - -{\bf 21}. In any triangle, $ABC$, we have, of course, -$$\overline{AB} + \overline{BC} + \overline{CA} = 0$$ -and, in any closed polygon, whether plane or gauche, -$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\ldots+\overline{YZ}+\overline{ZA} = 0$$ - -In the case of the polygon we have also -$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\ldots+\overline{YZ} = \overline{AZ}$$ - -These are the well-known propositions regarding composition -of velocities, which, by Newton's second law of motion, give us -the geometrical laws of composition of forces acting at one point. - -{\bf 22}. If we compound any number of {\bf parallel} vectors, the result -is obviously a numerical multiple of any one of them. -Thus, if $A$, $B$, $C$ are in one straight line, -$$\overline{BC} = x\overline{AB}$$ -where $x$ is a number, positive when $B$ lies between $A$ and $C$, -otherwise negative; but such that its numerical value, independent -of sign, is the ratio of the length of $BC$ to that of $AB$. This is -at once evident if $AB$ and $BC$ be commensurable; and is easily -extended to incommensurables by the usual {\sl reductio ad absurdum}. - -{\bf 23}. An important, but almost obvious, proposition is that {\sl any -vector may be resolved, and in one way only, into three components -parallel respectively to any three given vectors, no two of which are -parallel, and which are not parallel to one plane}. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat1.ps} - -Let $OA$, $OB$, $OC$ be the three fixed -vectors, $OP$ any other vector. From $P$ draw -$PQ$ parallel to $CO$, meeting the plane $BOA$ -in $Q$. [There must be a definite point $Q$, -else $PQ$, and therefore $CO$, would be parallel -to $BOA$, a case specially excepted.] From $Q$ -draw $QR$ parallel to $BO$, meeting $OA$ in $R$. - -Then we have $\overline{OP}=\overline{OR} + \overline{RQ} + \overline{QP}$ -(\S 21), -and these components are respectively parallel to the three given -vectors. By \S 22 we may express $\overline{OR}$ as a numerical multiple -of $\overline{OA}$, $\overline{RQ}$ of $\overline{OB}$, and -$\overline{QP}$ of $\overline{OC}$. Hence we have, generally, for -any vector in terms of three fixed non-coplanar vectors, $\alpha$, -$\beta$, $\gamma$ -$$\overline{OP} = \rho = x\alpha + y\beta + z\gamma$$ -which exhibits, in one form, the {\sl three} numbers on which a vector -depends (\S 16). Here $x$, $y$, $z$ are perfectly definite, and can have -but single values. - -{\bf 24}. Similarly any vector, as $\overline{OQ}$, in the same plane with -$\overline{OA}$ and $\overline{OB}$, -can be resolved (in one way only) into components $\overline{OR}$, -$\overline{RQ}$, -parallel respectively to $\overline{OA}$ and -$\overline{OB}$; so long, at least, as these -two vectors are not parallel to each other. - -{\bf 25}. There is particular advantage, in certain cases, in employing -a series of {\sl three mutually perpendicular unit-vectors} as -lines of reference. This system Hamilton denotes by $i$,$j$, $k$. - -Any other vector is then expressible as -$$\rho= xi + yj + zk$$ -Since $i$, $j$, $k$ are unit-vectors, $x$, $y$, $z$ are here the lengths of -conterminous edges of a rectangular parallelepiped of which $\rho$ -is the vector-diagonal; so that the length of $\rho$ is, in this case, -$$\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$ -Let \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\omega = \xi i + \eta j + \zeta k$\\ -be any other vector, then (by the proposition of \S 23) the vector -$$ -\begin{array}{lcr} -\textrm{equation} & \textrm{ } & \rho = \omega -\end{array} -$$ -obviously involves the following three equations among numbers, -$$x=\xi, y=\eta, z=\zeta$$ -Suppose $i$ to be drawn eastwards, $j$ northwards, and $k$ upwards, -this is equivalent merely to saying that {\sl if two points coincide, they -are equally to the east (or west) of any third point, equally to the -north (or south) of it, and equally elevated above (or depressed below) -its level.} - -{\bf 26}. It is to be carefully noticed that it is only when -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are not coplanar that a vector equation such as -$$\rho = \omega$$ -or\hbox{\hskip 3cm} -$x\alpha + y\beta + z\gamma = \xi \alpha + \eta \beta + \zeta \gamma$\\ -necessitates the three numerical equations -$$x = \xi, y = \eta, z = \zeta$$ -For, if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be coplanar (\S 24), -a condition of the following form must hold -$$\gamma = a\alpha + b\beta$$ -Hence,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=(x+za)\alpha+(y+zb)\beta$\\ -\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\omega=(\xi+\zeta a)\alpha + (\eta+\zeta b)\beta$\\ -and the equation\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=\omega$\\ -now requires only the two numerical conditions -$$x+za=\xi+\zeta a\hbox{\hskip 1cm}y+zb = \eta+\zeta b$$ - -{\bf 27}. {\sl The Commutative and Associative Laws hold in the combination -of vectors by the signs $+$ and $-$}. It is obvious that, if we -prove this for the sign $+$, it will be equally proved for $-$, because -$-$ before a vector (\S 20) merely indicates that it is to be reversed -before being considered positive. - -Let $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$ be, in order, the corners of a parallelogram ; we -have, obviously, -$$\overline{AB} = \overline{DC}\hbox{\hskip 1cm}\overline{AD}=\overline{BC}$$ -And \hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}= -\overline{AC}= -\overline{AD}+\overline{DC}= -\overline{BC}+\overline{AB}$ - -Hence the commutative law is true for the addition of any two -vectors, and is therefore generally true. - -Again, whatever four points are represented by $A$, $B$, $C$, $D$, we -$$\overline{AD}=\overline{AB}+\overline{BD}=\overline{AC}+\overline{CD}$$ -or substituting their values for $\overline{AD}$, $\overline{BD}$, -$\overline{AC}$ respectively, in these three expressions, -$$\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\overline{CD}= -\overline{AB}+(\overline{BC}+\overline{CD})= -(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC})+\overline{CD}$$ -And thus the truth of the associative law is evident. - -{\bf 28}. The equation -$$\rho = x\beta$$ -where $\rho$ is the vector connecting a variable point with the origin, -$\beta$ a definite vector, and $x$ an indefinite number, represents the -straight line drawn from the origin parallel to $\beta$ (\S 22). - -The straight line drawn from $A$, where $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, -and parallel to $\beta$, has the equation -$$\rho = \alpha + x\beta\eqno(1)$$ -In words, we may pass directly from $O$ to $P$ by the vector $\overline{OP}$ -or $\rho$; or we may pass first to $A$, by means of $\overline{OA}$ or -$\alpha$, and then to $P$ along a vector parallel to $\beta$ (\S 16). - -Equation (1) is one of the many useful forms into which -Quaternions enable us to throw the general equation of a straight -line in space. As we have seen (\S 25) it is equivalent to three -numerical equations; but, as these involve the indefinite quantity -$x$, they are virtually equivalent to but {\sl two}, as in ordinary Geometry -of Three Dimensions. - -{\bf 29}. A good illustration of this remark is furnished by the fact -that the equation -$$\rho = y\alpha + x\beta$$ -which contains two indefinite quantities, is virtually equivalent to -only one numerical equation. And it is easy to see that it represents -the plane in which the lines $\alpha$ and $\beta$ lie; or the surface -which is formed by drawing, through every point of $OA$, a line -parallel to $OB$. In fact, the equation, as written, is simply \S 24 -in symbols. - -And it is evident that the equation -$$\rho = \gamma + y\alpha + x\beta$$ -is the equation of the plane passing through the extremity of $\gamma$, -and parallel to $\alpha$ and $\beta$. - -It will now be obvious to the reader that the equation -$$\rho = p_1\alpha_1+p_2\alpha_2+\ldots=\sum{p\alpha}$$ -where $\alpha_1$, $\alpha_2$ , \&c. are given vectors, -and $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. numerical quantities, -{\sl represents a straight line} -if $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. be linear functions of -{\sl one} indeterminate number; and a {\sl plane}, if they be linear -expressions containing two indeterminate numbers. Later (\S 31 (l)), -this theorem will be much extended. - -Again, the equation -$$\rho = x\alpha + y\beta +z\gamma$$ -refers to {\sl any} point whatever in space, provided -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ are not coplanar. (Ante, \S 23) - -{\bf 30}. The equation of the line joining any two points $A$ and $B$, -where $\overline{OA} = \alpha$ and $\overline{OB} = \beta$, is obviously -$$\rho = \alpha + x(\beta-\alpha)$$ -or \hbox{\hskip 4.2cm}$\rho=\beta+y(\alpha-\beta)$\\ -These equations are of course identical, as may be seen by putting -$1-y$ for $x$. - -The first may be written -$$\rho+(x-1)\alpha-x\beta = 0$$ -or\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$p\rho+q\alpha+r\beta=0$\\ -subject to the condition $p + q + r = 0$ identically. That is -- -A homogeneous linear function of three vectors, equated to zero, -expresses that the extremities of these vectors are in one straight -line, {\sl if the sum of the coefficients be identically zero}. - -Similarly, the equation of the plane containing the extremities -$A$, $B$, $C$ of the three non-coplanar vectors -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ is -$$\rho=\alpha+x(\beta-\alpha)+y(\gamma-\beta)$$ -where $x$ and $y$ are each indeterminate. - -This may be written -$$p\rho + q\alpha + r\beta +s\gamma = 0$$ -with the identical relation -$$p+q+r+x=0$$ -which is one form of the condition that four points may lie in one plane. - -{\bf 31}. We have already the means of proving, in a very simple -manner, numerous classes of propositions in plane and solid -geometry. A very few examples, however, must suffice at this -stage; since we have hardly, as yet, crossed the threshold of the -subject, and are dealing with mere linear equations connecting two -or more vectors, and even with them {\sl we are restricted as yet to -operations of mere addition}. We will give these examples with a -painful minuteness of detail, which the reader will soon find to be -necessary only for a short time, if at all. - -(a) {\sl The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other}. - -Let $ABCD$ be the parallelogram, $O$ the point of intersection of -its diagonals. Then -$$\overline{AO}+\overline{OB}=\overline{AB}=\overline{DC}= -\overline{DO}+\overline{OC}$$ -which gives\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{AO}-\overline{OC}= -\overline{DO}-\overline{OB}$\\ -The two vectors here equated are parallel to the diagonals respectively. -Such an equation is, of course, absurd unless -\begin{enumerate} -\item The diagonals are parallel, in which case the figure -is not a parallelogram; -\item $\overline{AO} = \overline{OC}$, and -$\overline{DO} = \overline{OB}$, the proposition. -\end{enumerate} - -(b) {\sl To shew that a triangle can be constructed, whose sides -are parallel, and equal, to the bisectors of the sides of any -triangle}. - -Let $ABC$ be any triangle, $Aa$, $Bb$, $Cc$ the bisectors of the -sides. - -Then -$$ -\begin{array}{ccc} -\overline{Aa} & =\overline{AB}+\overline{Ba} - & =\overline{AB}+\frac{1}{2}\overline{BC}\\ -\overline{Bb} & \ldots & = \overline{BC} + \frac{1}{2}\overline{CA}\\ -\overline{Cc} & \ldots & = \overline{CA} + \frac{1}{2}\overline{AB} -\end{array} -$$ -Hence \hbox{\hskip 2cm}$\overline{Aa}+\overline{Bb}+\overline{Cc}= -\frac{3}{2}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}+\overline{CA})=0$\\ -which (\S 21) proves the proposition. - -Also -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\overline{Aa} & = & \overline{AB}+\frac{1}{2}\overline{BC}\\ - & = & \overline{AB}-\frac{1}{2}(\overline{CA}+\overline{AB})\\ - & = & \frac{1}{2}(\overline{AB}-\overline{CA})\\ - & = & \frac{1}{2}(\overline{AB}+\overline{AC}) -\end{array} -$$ -results which are sometimes useful. They may be easily verified -by producing $\overline{Aa}$ to twice its length and joining the extremity -with $B$. - -($b^{'}$) {\sl The bisectors of the sides of a triangle meet in a point, -which trisects each of them}. - -Taking $A$ as origin, and putting $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -for vectors parallel, and -equal, to the sides taken in order $BC$, $CA$, $AB$; the equation of -$Bb$ is (\S 28 (1)) -$$\rho=\gamma+x(\gamma+\frac{\beta}{2})=(1+x)\gamma+\frac{x}{2}\beta$$ -That of $Cc$ is, in the same way, -$$\rho=-(1+y)\beta-\frac{y}{2}\gamma$$ -At the point $O$, where $Bb$ and $Cc$ intersect, -$$\rho=(1+x)\gamma+\frac{x}{2}\beta=-(1+y)\beta-\frac{y}{2}\gamma$$ -Since $\gamma$ and $\beta$ are not parallel, this equation gives -$$1+x=-\frac{y}{2}\textrm{\ \ and\ \ }\frac{x}{2}=-(1+y)$$ -From these\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$x=y=-\frac{2}{3}$ - -Hence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\overline{AO}=\frac{1}{3}(\gamma-\beta)= -\frac{2}{3}\overline{Aa}$ (See Ex. (b))\\ - -This equation shows, being a vector one, that $\overline{Aa}$ passes -through $O$, and that $AO$ : $Oa$ :: 2:1. - -(c) If -$$\overline{OA}=\alpha$$ -$$\overline{OB}=\beta$$ -$$\overline{OC}=l\alpha+m\beta$$ -{\sl be three given co-planar vectors, $c$ the intersection of $AB$, $OC$, and -if the lines indicated in the figure be drawn, the points -$a_1$,$b_1$,$c_1$ lie in a straight line. } -\includegraphics{ps/quat2.ps} - -We see at once, by the process indicated in \S 30, that -$$\overline{Oc}=\frac{l\alpha+m\beta}{l+m},\hbox{\hskip 1cm} -\overline{Ob}=\frac{l\alpha}{1-m},\hbox{\hskip 1cm} -\overline{Oa}=\frac{m\beta}{1-l}$$ -Hence we easily find -$$\overline{Oa_1}=-\frac{m\beta}{1-l-2m},\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\overline{Ob_1}=-\frac{l\alpha}{1-2l-m},\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\overline{Oc_1}=\frac{-l\alpha+m\beta}{m-l}$$ -These give -$$-(1-l-2m)\overline{Oa_1}+(1-2l-m)\overline{Ob_1}-(m-l)\overline{Oc_1}=0$$ -But\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$-(1-l-2m)+(1-2l-m)-(m - l)=0$ identically. - -This, by \S 30, proves the proposition. - -(d) Let $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, -$\overline{OB} = \beta$, be any two vectors. If $MP$ be a -given line parallel to $OB$; and $OQ$, $BQ$, be drawn parallel to $AP$, -$OP$ respectively ; the locus of $Q$ is a straight line parallel to $OA$. - -\noindent -\includegraphics{ps/quat3.ps} - -\noindent -Let \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{OM}=e\alpha$\\ -Then \hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\overline{AP}=\overline{e-1}\alpha+x\beta$ - -Hence the equation of $OQ$ is -$$\rho=y(\overline{e-1}\alpha+x\beta)$$ -and that of $BQ$ is\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\rho=\beta+z(e\alpha+x\beta)$\\ -At Q we have, therefore, -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{c} -xy=1+zx\\ -y(e-1)=ze -\end{array} -\right\} -$$ -These give $xy = e$, and the equation of the locus of $Q$ is -$$\rho = e\beta+y^{'}\alpha$$ -i.e. a straight line parallel to $OA$, drawn through $N$ in $OB$ -produced, so that -$$ON : OB :: OM : OA$$ - -COR. If $BQ$ meet $MP$ in $q$, $\overline{Pq} = \beta$; -and if $AP$ meet $NQ$ in $p$, $\overline{Qp} = \alpha$. - -Also, for the point $R$ we have $\overline{pR} = \overline{AP}$, -$\overline{QR} = \overline{Bq}$. - -Further, the locus of $R$ is a hyperbola, of which $MP$ and $NQ$ -are the asymptotes. See, in this connection, \S 31 (k) below. - -Hence, {\sl if from any two points, $A$ and $B$, lines be drawn intercepting -a given length $Pq$ on a given line $Mq$ ; and if, from $R$ their -point of intersection, $Rp$ be laid off $= PA$, and $RQ = qB$ ; $Q$ and $p$ -lie on a fixed straight line, and the length of $Qp$ is constant}. - -(e) {\sl To find the centre of inertia of any system of masses.} - -If $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, $\overline{OB} = \alpha_1$, -be the vector sides of any triangle, the -vector from the vertex dividing the base $AB$ in $C$ so that -$$BC : CA :: m : m_1$$ -is \hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1}$\\ - -For $AB$ is $\alpha_1-\alpha$, and therefore $\overline{AC}$ is -$$\frac{m_1}{m+m_1}(\alpha_1-\alpha)$$ - -Hence\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\overline{OC}=\overline{OA}+\overline{AC}$ -$$=\alpha+\frac{m_1}{m+m_1}(\alpha_1-\alpha)$$ -$$=\frac{m\alpha +m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1}$$ -This expression shows how to find the centre of inertia of two -masses ; $m$ at the extremity of $\alpha$, $m_1$ at that of $\alpha_1$. -Introduce $m_2$ at the extremity of $a_2$, -then the vector of the centre of inertia of the -three is, by a second application of the formula, -$$\frac{(m+m_1)(\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1}{m+m_1})+m_2\alpha_2} -{(m+m_1)+m_2}=\frac{m\alpha+m_1\alpha_1+m_2\alpha_2}{m+m_1+m_2}$$ -From this it is clear that, for any number of masses, expressed -generally by $m$ at the extremity of the vector $\alpha$, the vector of the -centre of inertia is -$$\beta=\frac{\sum(m\alpha)}{\sum(m)}$$ -This may be written\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\sum m(\alpha-\beta)=0$\\ -Now a $\alpha_1-\beta$ -is the vector of $m_1$ with respect to the centre of inertia. -Hence the theorem, {\sl If the vector of each element of a mass, drawn -from the centre of inertia, be increased in length in proportion to the -mass of the element, the sum of all these vectors is zero.} - -(f) We see at once that the equation - -\noindent -\includegraphics{ps/quat4.ps} - -$$\rho=\alpha t +\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ -where $t$ is an indeterminate -number, and $\alpha$, $\beta$ given vectors, -represents a parabola. -The origin, $O$, is a point on -the curve, $\beta$ is parallel to -the axis, i.e. is the diameter -$OB$ drawn from the origin, -and $\alpha$ is $OA$ the tangent at the origin. In the figure -$$\overline{QP}=\alpha t,\hbox{\hskip 1cm}\overline{OQ}=\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ - -The secant joining the points where $t$ has the values $t$ and $t^{'}$ is -represented by the equation -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\rho&=&\alpha t +\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x\left(\alpha t^{'}+\frac{\beta t^{'2}}{2} --\alpha t-\frac{\beta t^2}{2}\right)\hbox{\hskip 1cm}(\S 30)\\ -&=&\alpha t+\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x(t^{'}-t)\left\{\alpha+\beta\frac{t^{'}-t}{2} -\right\} -\end{array} -$$ -Write $x$ for $x(t^{'}-t)$ [which may have any value], then put -$t^{'}=t$, and the equation of the tangent at the point ($t$) is -$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta t^2}{2}+x(\alpha+\beta t)$$ -In this put $x = -t$, and we have -$$\rho=-\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$$ -or the intercept of the tangent on the diameter is equal in length -to the abscissa of the point of contact, but has the opposite -currency. - -Otherwise: the tangent is parallel to the vector $\alpha+\beta t$ or -$\alpha t + \beta t^2$ or $\frac{\beta t^2}{2}+\alpha t+\frac{\beta t^2}{2}$ -or $\overline{OQ}+\overline{OP}$. -But $\overline{TP}=\overline{TO}+\overline{OP}$, -hence $\overline{TO} = \overline{OQ}$. - -(g) Since the equation of any tangent to the parabola is -$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta t^2}{2} + x(\alpha+\beta t)$$ -let us find the tangents which can be drawn from a given point. -Let the vector of the point be -$$\rho=p\alpha + q\beta\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm}(\S 24)$$ -Since the tangent is to pass through this point, we have, as con -ditions to determine $t$ and $x$, -$$t+x=p$$ -$$\frac{t^2}{2}+xt=q$$ -by equating respectively the coefficients of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. - -Hence\hbox{\hskip 3.5cm}$t=p \pm \sqrt{p^2-2q}$ - -Thus, in general, {\sl two} tangents can be drawn from a given point. -These coincide if $$p^2=2q$$ -that is, if the vector of the point from which they are to be drawn -is $$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta=p\alpha+\frac{p^2}{2}\beta$$ -i.e. if the point lies on the parabola. They are imaginary if -$2q > p^2$, that is, if the point be -$$\rho=p\alpha+\left(\frac{p^2}{2}+r\right)\beta$$ -$r$ being {\sl positive}. Such a point is evidently {\sl within} the curve, -as at $R$, where $\overline{OQ}=\frac{p^2}{2}\beta$, -$\overline{QP}=p\alpha$, $\overline{PR} = r\beta$. - -(h) Calling the values of $t$ for the two tangents found in (g) -$t_1$ and $t_2$ respectively, it is obvious that the vector joining the -points of contact is -$$\alpha t_1+\frac{\beta t_1^2}{2}-\alpha t_2 - \frac{\beta t_2^2}{2}$$ -which is parallel to\hbox{\hskip 2cm} -$\alpha+\beta\frac{t_1+t_2}{2}$ -or, by the values of $t_1$ and $t_2$ in (g), -$$\alpha+p\beta$$ -Its direction, therefore, does not depend on $q$. In words, {\sl If pairs of -tangents be drawn to a parabola from points of a diameter produced, -the chords of contact are parallel to the tangent at the vertex of the -diameter.} This is also proved by a former result, for we must have -$\overline{OT}$ for each tangent equal to $\overline{QO}$. - -(i) The equation of the chord of contact, for the point whose vector is -$$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta$$ -is thus\hbox{\hskip 3cm} -$\rho=\alpha t_1+\frac{\beta t_1^2}{2}+y(\alpha+p\beta)$ - -Suppose this to pass always through the point whose vector is -$$\rho=a\alpha+b\beta$$ -Then we must have -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{rcl} -t_1+y & = & a\\ -\frac{t_1^2}{2}+py & = & b -\end{array} -\right\} -$$ -or\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$t_1=p\pm\sqrt{p^2-2p\alpha+2\beta}$ - -Comparing this with the expression in (g), we have -$$ -q = pa - b -$$ -that is, the point from which the tangents are drawn has the vector -a straight line (\S 28 (1)). - -The mere form of this expression contains the proof of the usual -properties of the pole and polar in the parabola ; but, for the sake -of the beginner, we adopt a simpler, though equally general, process. - -Suppose $\alpha = 0$. This merely restricts the pole to the particular -diameter to which we have referred the parabola. Then the pole -is $Q$, where $$\rho = b\beta$$ -and the polar is the line $TU$, for which -$$\rho=-b\beta+p\alpha$$ -{\sl Hence the polar of any point is parallel to the tangent at the -extremity of the diameter on which the point lies, and its intersection -with that diameter is as far beyond the vertex as the pole -is within, and vice versa. } - -(j) As another example let us prove the following theorem. -{\sl If a triangle be inscribed in a parabola, the three points in which -the sides are met by tangents at the angles lie in a straight line. } - -Since $O$ is any point of the curve, we may take it as one corner -of the triangle. Let $t$ and $t_1$ determine the others. Then, if -$\omega_1$,$\omega_2$,$\omega_3$ -represent the vectors of the points of intersection of the -tangents with the sides, we easily find -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\omega_1 & = & \frac{t_1^2}{2t_1-t} -\left(\alpha+\frac{t}{2}\beta\right)\\ -&&\\ -\omega_2 & = & \frac{t^2}{2t-t_1} -\left(\alpha+\frac{t_1}{2}\beta\right)\\ -&&\\ -\omega_3 & = & \frac{tt_1}{t_1+t}\alpha -\end{array} -$$ -These values give -$$\frac{2t_1-t}{t_1}\omega_1 - -\frac{2t-t_1}{t}\omega_2 - -\frac{t_1^2-t^2}{tt_1}\omega_3 = 0$$ -Also -$$\frac{2t_1-t}{t_1} - -\frac{2t-t_1}{t} - -\frac{t_1^2-t^2}{tt_1} = 0$$ -identically. - -Hence, by \S 30, the proposition is proved. - -(k) Other interesting examples of this method of treating -curves will, of course, suggest themselves to the student. Thus -$$\rho = \alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t$$ -or -$$\rho=\alpha x + \beta\sqrt{1-x^2}$$ -represents an ellipse, of which the given vectors $\alpha$ and $\beta$ -are semiconjugate diameters. If $t$ represent time, the radius-vector of this -ellipse traces out equal areas in equal times. [We may anticipate -so far as to write the following : -$$2 \textrm{Area} = T\int V \rho d\rho = TV\alpha\beta.\int dt$$ -which will be easily understood later.] - -Again, -$$\rho=\alpha t+\frac{\beta}{t}\textrm{ or } -\rho=\alpha\tan x + \beta\cot x$$ -evidently represents a hyperbola referred to its asymptotes. [If -$t$ represent time, the sectorial area traced out is proportional to -$\log t$, taken between proper limits.] -Thus, also, the equation -$$\rho = \alpha(t + \sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ -in which $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are of equal lengths, and at right angles to one -another, represents a cycloid. The origin is at the middle point of -the axis ($2\beta$) of the curve. [It may be added that, if t represent -{\sl time}, this equation shows the motion of the tracing point, provided -the generating circle rolls uniformly, revolving at the rate of a -radian per second.] - -When the lengths of $\alpha$, $\beta$ are not equal, this equation gives the -cycloid distorted by elongation of its ordinates or abscissae : {\sl not} a -trochoid. The equation of a trochoid may be written -$$\rho = \alpha(et + \sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ -$e$ being greater or less than 1 as the curve is prolate or curtate. -The lengths of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are still taken as equal. - -But, so far as we have yet gone with the explanation of the -calculus, as we are not prepared to determine the lengths or -inclinations of vectors, we can investigate only a very limited class of -the properties of curves, represented by such equations as those -above written. - -(l) We may now, in extension of the statement in \S 29, make -the obvious remark that -$$\rho = \sum p\alpha$$ -(where, as in \S 23, the number of vectors, $\alpha$, can always be reduced -to {\sl three}, at most) is the equation of a curve in space, if the -numbers $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. are functions of one indeterminate. In such -a case the equation is sometimes written -$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ -But, if $p_1$, $p_2$, \&c. be functions of {\sl two} indeterminates, -the locus of the extremity of $\rho$ is a {\sl surface}; -whose equation is sometimes written -$$\rho = \phi(t,u)$$ - -[It may not be superfluous to call the reader's attention to the -fact that, in these equations, $\phi(t)$ or $\phi(t, u)$ -is necessarily a vector expression, since it is equated to a vector, $\rho$.] - -(m) Thus the equation -$$\rho = \alpha\cos t+\beta\sin t + \gamma t\eqno(1)$$ -belongs to a helix, -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -In Axiom we can draw this with the commands: -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} -while -$$\rho = \alpha\cos t+\beta\sin t + \gamma u\eqno(2)$$ -represents a cylinder whose generating lines are parallel to $\gamma$, -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} -and -whose base is the ellipse -$$\rho=\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t$$ -The helix above lies wholly on this cylinder. -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} - -Contrast with (2) the equation -$$\rho = u(\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma)\eqno(3)$$ -which represents a cone of the second degree -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} -made up, in fact, -of all lines drawn from the origin to the ellipse -$$\rho=\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma$$ -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} - -If, however, we write -$$\rho = u(\alpha\cos t + \beta\sin t + \gamma t)$$ -we form the equation of the transcendental cone whose vertex is -at the origin, and on which lies the helix (1). -\boxed{4.6in}{ -\vskip 0.1cm -\spadcommand{draw(a*cos(t)+b*sin(t)+c*u,[t=0..1,u=0..1]} -tpdhere -} - -In general -$$\rho=u\phi(t)$$ -is the cone whose vertex is the origin, and on which lies the curve -$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ -while\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\rho=\phi(t)+u\alpha$\\ -is a cylinder, with generating lines parallel to $\alpha$, standing on the -same curve as base. - -Again,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho=p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma$\\ -with a condition of the form -$$ap^2+bq^2+cr^2=1$$ -belongs to a central surface of the second order, of which -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are the directions of conjugate diameters. If $a$, $b$, $c$ be all positive, -the surface is an ellipsoid. - -{\bf 32}. In Example ($f$) above we performed an operation equivalent -to the differentiation of a vector with reference to a single -{\sl numerical} variable of which it was given as an explicit function. -As this process is of very great use, especially in quaternion -investigations connected with the motion of a particle or point; and as it -will afford us an opportunity of making a preliminary step towards -overcoming the novel difficulties which arise in quaternion differentiation; -we will devote a few sections to a more careful, though -very elementary, exposition of it. - -{\bf 33}. It is a striking circumstance, when we consider the way -in which Newton's original methods in the Differential Calculus -have been decried, to find that Hamilton was {\sl obliged} to employ -them, and not the more modern forms, in order to overcome the -characteristic difficulties of quaternion differentiation. Such a thing -as {\sl a differential coefficient has absolutely no meaning in quaternions}, -except in those special cases in which we are dealing with degraded -quaternions, such as numbers, Cartesian coordinates, \&c. But a -quaternion expression has always a {\sl differential}, which is, simply, -what Newton called a {\sl fluxion}. - -As with the Laws of Motion, the basis of Dynamics, so with the -foundations of the Differential Calculus ; we are gradually coming -to the conclusion that Newton s system is the best after all. - -{\bf 34}. Suppose $\rho$ to be the vector of a curve in space. Then, -generally, $\rho$ may be expressed as the sum of a number of terms, -each of which is a multiple of a constant vector by a function of some -{\sl one} indeterminate; or, as in \S 31 ($l$), -if $P$ be a point on the curve, -$$\overline{OP}=\rho=\phi(t)$$ - -And, similarly, if $Q$ be {\sl any other} point on the curve, -$$\overline{OQ}=\rho_1=\rho+\delta\rho=\phi(t_1)=\phi(t+\delta t)$$ -where $\delta t$ is {\sl any number whatever}. - -The vector-chord $\overline{PQ}$ is therefore, rigorously, -$$\delta p = \rho_1-\rho = \phi(t+\delta t)-\phi t$$ - -{\bf 35}. It is obvious that, in the present case, {\sl because the vectors -involved in $\phi$ are constant, and their numerical multipliers alone vary}, -the expression $\phi(t+\delta t)$ is, by Taylor's Theorem, equivalent to -$$\phi(t)+\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt}\delta t+ -\frac{d^2\phi(t)}{dt^2}\frac{(\delta t)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+\ldots$$ - -Hence, -$$\delta \rho=\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt}\delta t+ -\frac{d^2\phi(t)}{dt^2}\frac{(\delta t)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+\textrm{\&c.}$$ -And we are thus entitled to write, when $\delta t$ has been made -indefinitely small, -$$\textrm{Limit}\left( -\begin{array}{c} -\delta p\\ -\delta t -\end{array} -\right)_{\delta t=0} -=\frac{d\rho}{dt} -=\frac{d\phi(t)}{dt} -=\phi^{'}(t)$$ - -In such a case as this, then, we are permitted to differentiate, -or to form the differential coefficient of, a vector, according to the -ordinary rules of the Differential Calculus. But great additional -insight into the process is gained by applying Newton's method. - -{\bf 36}. Let $\overline{OP}$ be -$$\rho=\phi(t)$$ -and $overline{OQ}_1$ -$$\rho_1=\phi(t+dt)$$ -where $dt$ is any number whatever. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat5.ps} - -The number $t$ may here be taken -as representing {\sl time}, i.e. we may -suppose a point to move along the -curve in such a way that the value -of $t$ for the vector of the point $P$ of -the curve denotes the interval which -has elapsed (since a fixed epoch) when the moving point has -reached the extremity of that vector. If, then, $dt$ represent any -interval, finite or not, we see that -$$\overline{OQ}_1=\phi(t+dt)$$ -will be the vector of the point after the additional interval $dt$. - -But this, in general, gives us little or no information as to the -velocity of the point at $P$. We shall get a better approximation -by halving the interval $dt$, and finding $Q_2$ , -where $\overline{OQ}_2 = \phi(t + \frac{1}{2}dt)$, -as the position of the moving point at that time. Here the vector -virtually described in $\frac{1}{2}dt$ is -$\overline{PQ}_2$ . To find, on this supposition, -the vector described in $dt$, we must double -$\overline{PQ}_2$ , and we find, as a -second approximation to the vector which the moving point would -have described in time $dt$, if it had moved for that period in the -direction and with the velocity it had at $P$, -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\overline{Pq}_2=2\overline{PQ}_2 & = & 2(\overline{OQ}_2-\overline{OP})\\ -& = & 2\{\phi(t+\frac{1}{2}dt)-\phi(t)\} -\end{array} -$$ -The next approximation gives -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\overline{Pq}_3=3\overline{PQ}_3 & = & 3(\overline{OQ}_3-\overline{OP})\\ -& = & 3\{\phi(t+\frac{1}{3}dt)-\phi(t)\} -\end{array} -$$ -And so on, each step evidently leading us nearer the sought truth. -Hence, to find the vector which would have been described in time -$dt$ had the circumstances of the motion at $P$ remained undisturbed, -we must find the value of -$$d\rho=\overline{Pq}=L_{x=\infty}x\left\{\phi\left(t+\frac{1}{x}dt\right) --\phi(t)\right\}$$ - -We have seen that in this particular case we may use Taylor's -Theorem. We have, therefore, -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -d\rho & = & L_{x=\infty}x -\left\{ -\phi^{'}(t)\frac{1}{x}dt+ -\phi^{''}(t)\frac{1}{x^2}\frac{(dt)^2}{1\textrm{ . }2}+ -\textrm{\&c} -\right\}\\ -&&\\ -& = & \phi^{'}(t)dt -\end{array} -$$ -And, if we choose, we may now write -$$\frac{d\rho}{dt}=\phi^{'}(t)$$ - -{\bf 37}. But it is to be most particularly remarked that in the -whole of this investigation no regard whatever has been paid to -the magnitude of $dt$. The question which we have now answered -may be put in the form -- {\sl A point describes a given curve in a given -manner. At any point of its path its motion suddenly ceases to be -accelerated. What space will it describe in a definite interval?} As -Hamilton well observes, this is, for a planet or comet, the case -of a 'celestial Atwood's machine'. - -{\bf 38}. If we suppose the variable, in terms of which $\rho$ is expressed, -to be the arc, $s$, of the curve measured from some fixed point, we -find as before -$$d\rho = \phi^{'}(x)ds$$ -From the very nature of the question it is obvious that the length -of $dp$ must in this case be $ds$, so that $\phi^{'}(s)$ -is necessarily a unit-vector. -This remark is of importance, as we shall see later; and -it may therefore be useful to obtain afresh the above result without -any reference to time or velocity. - -{\bf 39}. Following strictly the process of Newton s VIIth Lemma, -let us describe on $Pq_2$ an arc similar to $PQ_2$, and so on. Then -obviously, as the subdivision of $ds$ is carried farther, the new arc -(whose length is always $ds$) more and more nearly (and without -limit) coincides with the line which expresses the corresponding -approximation to $dp$. - -{\bf 40}. As additional examples let us take some well-known -{\sl plane} curves; and first the hyperbola (\S 31 ($k$)) -$$\rho=\alpha t + \frac{\beta}{t}$$ -Here -$$d\rho=\left(\alpha-\frac{\beta}{t^2}\right)dt$$ -This shows that the tangent is parallel to the vector -$$\alpha t - \frac{\beta}{t}$$ -In words, {\sl if the vector (from the centre) of a point in a hyperbola -be one diagonal of a parallelogram, two of whose sides coincide with -the asymptotes, the other diagonal is parallel to the tangent at the -point, and cuts off a constant area from the space between the -asymptotes}. (For the sides of this triangular area are $t$ times the -length of $\alpha$, and $1/t$ -times the length of $\beta$, respectively; the angle -between them being constant.) - -Next, take the cycloid, as in \S 31 ($k$), -$$\rho=\alpha(t+\sin t)+\beta\cos t$$ -We have -$$d\rho=\{\alpha(1+\cos t)-\beta\sin t\}dt$$ -At the vertex -$$t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\cos t=1,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\sin t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\textrm{ and }d\rho=2\alpha dt$$ -At a cusp -$$t=\pi,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\cos t=-1,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\sin t=0,\hbox{\hskip 0.5cm} -\textrm{ and }d\rho = 0$$ - -This indicates that, at the cusp, the tracing point is ( -instantaneously) at rest. To find the direction of the tangent, and the -form of the curve in the vicinity of the cusp, put $t=\pi+\tau$, -where powers of $\tau$ above the second are omitted. We have -$$d\rho=\beta\tau dt + \frac{\alpha\tau^2}{2}dt$$ -so that, at the cusp, the tangent is parallel to $\beta$. By making the -same substitution in the expression for $\rho$, we find that the part of -the curve near the cusp is a semicubical parabola, -$$\rho=\alpha(\pi+\tau^3/6)-\beta(1-\tau^2/2)$$ -or, if the origin be shifted to the cusp ($\rho=\pi\alpha-\beta$), -$$\rho=\alpha\tau^3/6+\beta\tau^2/2$$ - -{\bf 41}. Let us reverse the first of these questions, and {\sl seek the -envelope of a line which cuts off from two fixed axes a triangle of -constant area}. - -If the axes be in the directions of $\alpha$ and $\beta$, the intercepts may -evidently be written $\alpha t$ and $\frac{\beta}{t}$. -Hence the equation of the line is (\S 30) -$$\rho=\alpha t + x\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)$$ - -The condition of envelopment is, obviously, (see Chap. IX.) -$$d\rho = 0$$ -This gives -$0 = \left\{\alpha-x\left(\frac{\beta}{t^2}+\alpha\right)\right\}dt+ -\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)dx$ -%tpdhere -- this should use an asterisk, a number looks like a superscript -\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript -\footnote{ -Here we have opportunity for a remark (very simple indeed, but) -of the utmost importance. {\sl We are not to equate separately to zero the -coefficients of dt and dx}; for we must remember that this equation is -of the form -$$0=p\alpha + q\beta$$ -where $p$ and $q$ are numbers; and that, so long as $\alpha$ and $\beta$ -are actual and non-parallel vectors, the existence of such an equation -requires (\S 24)} - -%tpdhere this is a cheesy use of \leqno. figure out how to do it right. -\noindent -$$\leqno{\textrm{Hence}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}(1-x)dt-tdx=0$$ -%tpdhere -- this text comes out little. -$$\leqno{\textrm{and}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}-\frac{x}{t^2}dt+\frac{dx}{t}=0$$ -From these, at once, $x = \frac{1}{2}$, since $dx$ and $dt$ are indeterminate. -Thus the equation of the envelope is -$$\begin{array}{rcl} -\rho & = & \alpha t + \frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)\\ - & = & \frac{1}{2}\left(\alpha t + \frac{\beta}{t}\right) -\end{array}$$ -the hyperbola as before; $\alpha$, $\beta$ being portions of its asymptotes. - -{\bf 42}. It may assist the student to a thorough comprehension -of the above process, if we put it in a slightly different form. -Thus the equation of the enveloping line may be written -$$\rho=\alpha t(1-x)+\beta\frac{x}{t}$$ -which gives -$$d\rho = 0 = \alpha d\{t(1-x)\}+\beta d\left(\frac{x}{t}\right)$$ -Hence, as $\alpha$ is not parallel to $\beta$, we must have -$$d\{t(1-x)\}=0,\hbox{\hskip 1cm}d\left(\frac{x}{t}\right)=0$$ -and these are, when expanded, the equations we obtained in the -preceding section. - -{\bf 43}. For farther illustration we give a solution not directly -employing the differential calculus. The equations of any two of -the enveloping lines are -$$\rho=\alpha t + x\left(\frac{\beta}{t}-\alpha t\right)$$ -$$\rho=\alpha t_1 + x_1\left(\frac{\beta}{t_1}-\alpha t_1\right)$$ -$t$ and $t_1$ being given, while $x$ and $x_1$ are indeterminate. - -At the point of intersection of these lines we have (\S 26), -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{rcl} -t(1-x) & = & t_1(1-x_1)\\ -\frac{x}{t} & = & \frac{x_1}{t_1} -\end{array} -\right\}$$ -These give, by eliminating $x_1$ -$$t(1-x)=t_1\left(1-\frac{t_1}{t}x\right)$$ -$$\leqno{\textrm{or}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}x=\frac{t}{t_1+t}$$ -Hence the vector of the point of intersection is -$$\rho=\frac{\alpha tt_1+\beta}{t_1+t}$$ -and thus, for the ultimate intersections, where $L\frac{t_1}{t}=1$, -$$\rho=\frac{1}{2}\left(\alpha t+\frac{\beta}{t}\right) -\textrm{ as before }$$ -COR. If. instead of the {\sl ultimate} intersections, we consider -the intersections of pairs of these lines related by some law, we -obtain useful results. Thus let -$$tt_1 = 1$$ -$$\rho=\frac{\alpha+\beta}{t+\frac{1}{t}}$$ -or the intersection lies in the diagonal of the parallelogram on -$\alpha$, $\beta$. - -If $t_1=mt$, where $m$ is constant, -$$\rho=\frac{mt\alpha+\frac{\beta}{t}}{m+1}$$ -But we have also $x=\frac{1}{m+1}$ - -Hence {\sl the locus of a point which divides in a given ratio a line -cutting off a given area from two fixed axes, is a hyperbola of which -these axes are the asymptotes}. - -If we take either -$$tt_1(t+t_1)=\textrm{constant, or } -\frac{t^2t_1^2}{t+t_1}=\textrm{constant}$$ -the locus is a parabola; and so on. - -It will be excellent practice for the student, at this stage, to -work out in detail a number of similar questions relating to the -envelope of, or the locus of the intersection of selected pairs from, a -series of lines drawn according to a given law. And the process -may easily be extended to planes. Thus, for instance, we may -form the general equation of planes which cut off constant tetrahedra -from the axes of coordinates. Their envelope is a surface of -the third degree whose equation may be written -$$\rho=x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma$$ -$$\leqno{\textrm{where}}\hbox{\hskip 4cm}xyz=\alpha^3$$ - -Again, find the locus of the point of intersection of three of -this group of planes, such that -the first intercepts on $\beta$ and $\gamma$, -the second on $\gamma$ and $\alpha$, -the third on $\alpha$ and $\beta$, lengths all equal to one -another, \&c. But we must not loiter with such simple matters as -these. - -{\bf 44}. The reader who is fond of Anharmonic Ratios and Trans -versals will find in the early chapters of Hamilton's {\sl Elements of -Quaternions} an admirable application of the composition of vectors -to these subjects. The Theory of Geometrical Nets, in a plane, -and in space, is there very fully developed; and the method is -shown to include, as particular cases, the corresponding processes of -Grassmann's {\sl Ausdehnungslehre} and M\"obius' {\sl Barycentrische Calcul}. -Some very curious investigations connected with curves and surfaces -of the second and third degrees are also there founded upon the -composition of vectors. - -\section{Examples To Chapter 1.} - -1. The lines which join, towards the same parts, the extremities -of two equal and parallel lines are themselves equal and parallel. -({\sl Euclid}, I. xxxiii.) - -2. Find the vector of the middle point of the line which joins -the middle points of the diagonals of any quadrilateral, plane or -gauche, the vectors of the corners being given; and so prove that -this point is the mean point of the quadrilateral. - -If two opposite sides be divided proportionally, and two new -quadrilaterals be formed by joining the points of division, the mean -points of the three quadrilaterals lie in a straight line. - -Show that the mean point may also be found by bisecting the -line joining the middle points of a pair of opposite sides. - -3. Verify that the property of the coefficients of three vectors -whose extremities are in a line (\S 30) is not interfered with by -altering the origin. - -4. If two triangles $ABC$, $abc$, be so situated in space that $Aa$, -$Bb$, $Cc$ meet in a point, the intersections of $AB$, $ab$, of $BC$, $bc$, -and of $CA$, $ca$, lie in a straight line. - -5. Prove the converse of 4, i.e. if lines be drawn, one in each -of two planes, from any three points in the straight line in which -these planes meet, the two triangles thus formed are sections of a -common pyramid. - -6. If five quadrilaterals be formed by omitting in succession -each of the sides of any pentagon, the lines bisecting the diagonals -of these quadrilaterals meet in a point. (H. Fox Talbot.) - -7. Assuming, as in \S 7, that the operator -$$\cos\theta + \sqrt{-1}\sin\theta$$ -turns any radius of a given circle through an angle $\theta$ in the -positive direction of rotation, without altering its length, deduce -the ordinary formulae for $\cos(A+B)$, $\cos(A-B)$, $\sin(A+B)$, and -$\sin(A-B)$, in terms of sines and cosines of $A$ and $B$. - -8. If two tangents be drawn to a hyperbola, the line joining -the centre with their point of intersection bisects the lines join -ing the points where the tangents meet the asymptotes : and the -secant through the points of contact bisects the intercepts on -the asymptotes. - -9. Any two tangents, limited by the asymptotes, divide each -other proportionally. - -10. If a chord of a hyperbola be one diagonal of a parallelogram -whose sides are parallel to the asymptotes, the other diagonal passes -through the centre. - -11. Given two points $A$ and $B$, and a plane, $C$. Find the -locus of $P$, such that if $AP$ cut $C$ in $Q$, and $BP$ cut $C$ in $R$, -$\overline{QR}$ may be a given vector. - -12. Show that\hbox{\hskip 1cm} $\rho = x^2\alpha+y^2\beta+(x+y)^2\gamma$\\ -is the equation of a cone of the second degree, and that its section -by the plane -$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma}{p+q+r}$$ -is an ellipse which touches, at their middle points, the sides of the -triangle of whose corners $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are the vectors. (Hamilton, {\sl Elements}, p. 96.) - -13. The lines which divide, proportionally, the pairs of opposite -sides of a gauche quadrilateral, are the generating lines of a -hyperbolic paraboloid. ({\sl Ibid}. p. 97.) - -14. Show that\hbox{\hskip 2cm} $\rho=x^3\alpha+y^3\beta+z^3\gamma$\\ -where\hbox{\hskip 4cm} $x+y+z=0$\\ -represents a cone of the third order, and that its section by the plane -$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta+r\gamma}{p+q+r}$$ -is a cubic curve, of which the lines -$$\rho=\frac{p\alpha+q\beta}{p+q},\textrm{ \&c}$$ -are the asymptotes and the three (real) tangents of inflection. Also -that the mean point of the triangle formed by these lines is a -conjugate point of the curve. Hence that the vector $\alpha+\beta+\gamma$ -is a conjugate ray of the cone. ({\sl Ibid}. p. 96.) - -\chapter{Products And Quotients of Vectors} - -{\bf 45}. We now come to the consideration of questions in which -the Calculus of Quaternions differs entirely from any previous -mathematical method; and here we shall get an idea of what a -Quaternion is, and whence it derives its name. These questions -are fundamentally involved in the novel use of the symbols of -multiplication and division. And the simplest introduction to -the subject seems to be the consideration of the quotient, or ratio, -of two vectors. - -{\bf 46}. If the given vectors be parallel to each other, we have -already seen (\S 22) that either may be expressed as a numerical -multiple of the other; the multiplier being simply the ratio of -their lengths, taken positively if they have similar currency, -negatively if they run opposite ways. - -{\bf 47}. If they be not parallel, let $\overline{OA}$ and -$\overline{OB}$ be drawn parallel -and equal to them from any point $O$; and the question is reduced -to finding the value of the ratio of two vectors drawn from the -same point. Let us first find {\sl upon how many distinct numbers this -ratio depends}. - -We may suppose $\overline{OA}$ to be changed into -$\overline{OB}$ by the following successive processes. - -1st. Increase or diminish the length of $\overline{OA}$ till it becomes -equal to that of $\overline{OB}$. For this only one number is required, viz. -the ratio of the lengths of the two vectors. As Hamilton remarks, -this is a positive, or rather a {\sl signless}, number. - -2nd. Turn $\overline{OA}$ about $O$, in the common plane of the two -vectors, until its direction coincides with that of $\overline{OB}$, and -(remembering the effect of the first operation) we see that the two vectors -now coincide or become identical. To specify this operation three -numbers are required, viz. two angles (such as node and inclination -in the case of a planet's orbit) to fix the plane in which the rotation -takes place, and {\sl one} angle for the amount of this rotation. - -Thus it appears that the ratio of two vectors, or the multiplier -required to change one vector into another, in general depends upon -{\sl four} distinct numbers, whence the name QUATERNION. - -A quaternion q is thus {\sl defined} as expressing a relation -$$\beta=q\alpha$$ -between two vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$. -By what precedes, the vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, -which serve for the definition of a given quaternion, must be in a -given plane, at a given inclination to each other, and with their -lengths in a given ratio ; but it is to be noticed that they may be -{\sl any} two such vectors. [{\sl Inclination} is understood to include sense, -or currency, of rotation from $\alpha$ to $\beta$.] - -The particular case of perpendicularity of the two vectors, where -their quotient is a vector perpendicular to their plane, is fully -considered below; \S\S 64, 65, 72, \&c. - -{\bf 48}. It is obvious that the operations just described may be -performed, with the same result, in the opposite order, being perfectly -independent of each other. Thus it appears that a quaternion, -considered as the factor or agent which changes one definite vector -into another, may itself be decomposed into two factors of which -the order is immaterial. - -The {\sl stretching} factor, or that which performs the first operation -in \S 47, is called the TENSOR, and is denoted by prefixing $T$ to the -quaternion considered. - -The {\sl turning factor}, or that corresponding to the second operation -in \S 47, is called the VERSOR, and is denoted by the letter $U$ prefixed -to the quaternion. - -{\bf 49}. Thus, if $\overline{OA} = \alpha$, -$\overline{OB} = \beta$, and if $q$ be the quaternion -which changes $\alpha$ to $\beta$, we have -$$\beta = q\alpha$$ -which we may write in the form -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha} = q\textrm{, or }\beta\alpha^{-1}=q$$ -if we agree to {\sl define} that -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\alpha = \beta\alpha^{-1}\alpha = \beta$$ -Here it is to be particularly noticed that we write $q$ -{\sl before} $\alpha$ to -signify that $\alpha$ is multiplied by (or operated on by) $q$, not $q$ -multiplied by $\alpha$. - -This remark is of extreme importance in quaternions, for, as we -shall soon see, the Commutative Law does not generally apply to -the factors of a product. - -We have also, by \S\S 47, 48, -$$q=TqUq=UqTq$$ -where, as before, $Tq$ depends merely on the relative lengths of -$\alpha$ and $\beta$, and $Uq$ depends solely on their directions. - -Thus, if $\alpha_1$ and $\beta_1$ -be vectors of unit length parallel to $\alpha$ and $\beta$ -respectively, -$$T\frac{\beta_1}{\alpha_1} = T\beta_1/T\alpha_1 = 1\textrm{, } -U\frac{\beta_1}{\alpha_1} = U\beta_1/U\alpha_1 = U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$$ -As will soon be shown, when $\alpha$ is perpendicular to $\beta$, -i.e. when the versor of the quotient is quadrantal, it is a unit-vector. - -{\bf 50}. We must now carefully notice that the quaternion which -is the quotient when $\beta$ is divided by $\alpha$ in no way depends upon -the {\sl absolute} lengths, or directions, of these vectors. Its value -will remain unchanged if we substitute for them any other pair -of vectors which - -\noindent -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}(1) have their lengths in the same ratio, - -\noindent -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}(2) have their common plane the same or parallel, - -\noindent -and\hbox{\hskip 1.32cm} (3) make the same angle with each other. - -Thus in the annexed figure - -\includegraphics{ps/quat6.ps} - -$$\frac{O_1B_1}{O_1A_1} = \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}$$ -if, and only if, - -\noindent -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(1)\textrm{ }\frac{O_1B_1}{O_1A_1} = \frac{OB}{OA}$ - -\noindent -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(2)\textrm{ plane }AOB\textrm{ parallel to plane } -A_1O_1B_1$ - -\noindent -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(3)\textrm{ }\angle{}AOB = \angle A_1O_1B_1$ - -[Equality of angles is understood to include -concurrency of rotation. Thus in the annexed -figure the rotation about an axis drawn upwards -from the plane is negative (or clock- wise) from -$OA$ to $OB$, and also from $O_1A_1$ to $O_1B_1$.] - -It thus appears that if -$$\beta = q\alpha\textrm{, }\delta = q\gamma$$ -the vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\delta$ -are parallel to one plane, and may be repre -sented (in a highly extended sense) as {\sl proportional} to one another, -thus: -- -$$\beta : \alpha = \delta : \gamma$$ - -And it is clear from the previous part of this section that this -may be written not only in the form -$$\alpha : \beta = \gamma : \delta$$ -but also in either of the following forms: -- -$$\gamma : \alpha = \delta : \beta$$ -$$\alpha : \gamma = \beta : \delta$$ - -While these proportions are true as equalities of ratios, they -do not usually imply equalities of products. - -Thus, as the first of these was equivalent to the equation -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{\delta}{\gamma}=q\textrm{, or } -\beta\alpha^{-1}=\delta\gamma^{-1}=q$$ -the following three imply separately, (see next section) -$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{\gamma}{\delta}=q^{-1}\textrm{, } -\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\frac{\delta}{\beta}=r\textrm{, } -\frac{\alpha}{\gamma}=\frac{\beta}{\delta}=r^{-1}$$ -or, if we please, -$$\alpha\beta^{-1}=\gamma\delta^{-1}=q^{-1}\textrm{, } -\gamma\alpha^{-1}=\delta\beta^{-1}=r\textrm{, } -\alpha\gamma^{-1}=\beta\delta^{-1}=r^{-1}$$ -where $r$ is a {\sl new} quaternion, which has not necessarily anything -(except its plane), in common with $q$. - -But here great caution is requisite, for we are {\sl not} entitled to -conclude from these that -$$\alpha\delta=\beta\gamma\textrm{, \&c.}$$ - -This point will be fully discussed at a later stage. Meanwhile -we may merely {\sl state} that from -$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{\gamma}{\delta}\textrm{, or } -\frac{\beta}{\alpha} = \frac{\delta}{\gamma}$$ -we are entitled to deduce a number of equivalents such as -$$\alpha\beta^{-1}\delta=\gamma\textrm{, or } -\alpha=\gamma\delta^{-1}\beta\textrm{, or } -\beta^{-1}\delta=\alpha^{-1}\gamma\textrm{, \&c}$$ - -{\bf 51}. The {\sl Reciprocal} of a quaternion $q$ is defined by the -equation -$$\frac{1}{q}q=q^{-1}=1=q\frac{1}{q}=qqe^{-1}$$ -Hence if -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=q\textrm{, or}$$ -$$\beta=q\alpha$$ -we must have -$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}=\frac{1}{q}=q^{-1}$$ -For this gives -$$\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\beta=q^{-1}q\alpha$$ -and each member of the equation is evidently equal to $\alpha$. -Or thus: -- -$$\beta=q\alpha$$ -Operate {\sl by} $q^{-1}$ -$$q^{-1}\beta = \alpha$$ -Operate {\sl on} $\beta^{-1}$ -$$q^{-1} = \alpha\beta^{-1} = \frac{\alpha}{\beta}$$ - -Or, we may reason thus: -- since $q$ changes $\overline{OA}$ to -$\overline{OA}$, $q^{-1}$ must -change $\overline{OB}$ to $\overline{OA}$, -and is therefore expressed by $\frac{\alpha}{\beta}$ (\S 49). - -The tensor of the reciprocal of a quaternion is therefore the -reciprocal of the tensor; and the versor differs merely by the -{\sl reversal} of its representative angle. The versor, it must be -remembered, gives the plane and angle of the turning -- it has -nothing to do with the extension. - -[{\sl Remark}. In \S\S 49--51, above, we had such expressions as -$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}$. -We have also met with $\alpha^{-1}\beta$. Cayley suggests that this -also may be written in the ordinary fractional form by employing -the following distinctive notation: -- -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}=\frac{\beta|}{|\alpha}\textrm{, } -\alpha^{-1}\beta=\frac{|\beta}{\alpha|}$$ - -(It might, perhaps, be even simpler to use the {\sl solidus} as -recommended by Stokes, along with an obviously correlative -type:-- thus, -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\beta\alpha^{-1}=\beta/\alpha\textrm{, } -\alpha^{-1}\beta=\alpha\\ \beta$$ - -I have found such notations occasionally convenient for private -work, but I hesitate to introduce changes unless they are abso -lutely required. See remarks on this point towards the end of the -{\sl Preface to the Second Edition} reprinted above.] - -{\bf 52}. The {\sl Conjugate} of a quaternion $q$, written $Kq$, has the -same tensor, plane, and angle, only the angle is taken the reverse -way; or the versor of the conjugate is the reciprocal of the versor -of the quaternion, or (what comes to the same thing) the versor of -the reciprocal. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat7.ps} - -Thus, if $OA$, $OB$, $OA^{'}$ , lie in one plane, and if -$OA^{'} = OA$, and $\angle A^{'}OB = \angle BOA$, we have -$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}=q$$, -and -$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA^{'}}}=\textrm{ congugate of }q=Kq$$ - -By last section we see that -$$Kq=(Tq)^2q^{-1}$$ -Hence\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$qKq=Kqq=(Tq)^2$ - -This proposition is obvious, if we recollect that -the tensors of $q$ and $Kq$ are equal, and that the -versors are such that either {\sl annuls} the effect of the other; while -the order of their application is indifferent. The joint effect of -these factors is therefore merely to multiply twice over by the -common tensor. - -{\bf 53}. It is evident from the results of \S 50 that, if $\alpha$ and $\beta$ -be of equal length, they may be treated as of unit-length so far as -their quaternion quotient is concerned. This quotient is therefore -a versor (the tensor being unity) and may be represented indifferently -by any one of an infinite number of concurrent arcs of -given length lying on the circumference of a circle, of which the -two vectors are radii. This is of considerable importance in the -proofs which follow. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat8.ps} - -Thus the versor -${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$ may be represented -in magnitude, plane, and currency of rotation (\S 50) -by the arc $AB$, which may in this extended sense be written -${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$. - -And, similarly, the versor -${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB_1}}{\overline{OA_1}}}$ -may be represented by -${\stackrel{\frown}{A_1B_1}}$ -which is equal to (and concurrent with) -${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ if -$$\angle A_1OB_1 = \angle AOB$$ -i.e. if the versors are {\sl equal}, in the quaternion meaning of the -word. - -{\bf 54}. By the aid of this process, when a versor is represented as -an arc of a great circle on the unit-sphere, we can easily prove -that {\sl quaternion multiplication is not generally commutative}. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat9.ps} - -Thus let $q$ be the versor ${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ or -${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$, -where $O$ is the centre of the sphere. - -Take ${\stackrel{\frown}{BC}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$, -(which, it must be remembered, makes the points $A$, $B$, $C$, lie -in one great circle), then $q$ may also be -represented by ${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OC}}{\overline{OB}}}$. - -In the same way any other versor $r$ may be represented by -${\stackrel{\frown}{DB}}$ or ${\stackrel{\frown}{BE}}$ and by -${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OD}}}$ or -${\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OE}}{\overline{OB}}}$. - -[The line $OB$ in the figure is definite, and is given by the -intersection of the planes of the two versors.] - -Now $r\overline{OD} = \overline{OB}$, and $q\overline{OB}=\overline{OC}$. - -Hence $qr\overline{OD} = \overline{OC}$, - -or $qr = {\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OC}}{\overline{OD}}}$, -and may therefore be represented by the arc ${\stackrel{\frown}{DC}}$ of -a great circle. - -But $rq$ is easily seen to be represented by the arc -${\stackrel{\frown}{AE}}$. - -For $q\overline{OA}=\overline{OB}$, and $r\overline{OB}=\overline{OE}$, - -whence $rq\overline{OA} = \overline{OE}$. and -$rq = {\displaystyle \frac{\overline{OE}}{\overline{OA}}}$. - -Thus the versors $rq$ and $qr$, though represented by arcs of equal -length, are not generally in the same plane and are therefore -unequal: unless the planes of $q$ and $r$ coincide. - -Remark. We see that we have assumed, or defined, in the -above proof, that $q . r\alpha = qr . \alpha$. -and $r.q\alpha = rq.\alpha$ in the special case -when $q\alpha$, $r\alpha$, $q.r\alpha$ and $r.q\alpha$ are all {\sl vectors}. - -{\bf 55}. Obviously ${\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ is $Kq$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{BD}}$ is $Kr$, and -${\stackrel{\frown}{CD}}$ is $K (qr)$. But -${\stackrel{\frown}{CD}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{BD}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ -as we see by applying both to OC. This gives us -the very important theorem -$$K (qr) = Kr . Kq$$ -i.e. {\sl the conjugate of the product of two versors is the product of their -conjugates in inverted order}. This will, of course, be extended to -any number of factors as soon as we have proved the associative -property of multiplication. (\S 58 below.) - -{\bf 56}. The propositions just proved are, of course, true of quater -nions as well as of versors; for the former involve only an additional -numerical factor which has reference to the length merely, and not -the direction, of a vector (\S 48), and is therefore commutative with -all other factors. - -{\bf 57}. Seeing thus that the commutative law does not in general -hold in the multiplication of quaternions, let us enquire whether -the Associative Law holds generally. That is if $p$, $q$, $r$ be three -quaternions, have we -$$p.qr = pq.r?$$ - -This is, of course, obviously true if $p$, $q$, $r$ be numerical quantities, -or even any of the imaginaries of algebra. But it cannot be con -sidered as a truism for symbols which do not in general give - -$$pq = qp$$ - -We have assumed it, in definition, for the special case when $r$, -$qr$, and $pqr$ are all vectors. (\S 54.) But we are not entitled to -assume any more than is absolutely required to make our -definitions complete. - -{\bf 58}. In the first place we remark that $p$, $q$, and $r$ may be -considered as versors only, and therefore represented by arcs of -great circles on the unit sphere, for their tensors may obviously -(\S 48) be divided out from both sides, being commutative with the -versors. - -Let ${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}=p$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{ED}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CA}} = q$, and -${\stackrel{\frown}{FE}} = r$. - -Join $BC$ and produce the great circle till it meets $EF$ in $H$, and -make ${\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{FE}} = r$, -and ${\stackrel{\frown}{HG}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CB}} =pq$ (\S 54). - -\includegraphics{ps/quat10.ps} - -Join $GK$. Then -${\stackrel{\frown}{KG}} = -{\stackrel{\frown}{HG}} . {\stackrel{\frown}{KH}} = pq . r$. - -Join $FD$ and produce it to meet $AB$ in $M$. Make -$${\stackrel{\frown}{LM}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{FD}} -\textrm{, and }{\stackrel{\frown}{MN}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$$ - -and join $NL$. Then -$${\stackrel{\frown}{LN}}= {\stackrel{\frown}{MN}} . -{\stackrel{\frown}{LM}}=p.qr$$. - -Hence to show that $p . qr = pq . r$ - -all that is requisite is to prove that $LN$, and $KG$, described as -above, are {\sl equal arcs of the same great circle}, since, by the figure, -they have evidently similar currency. This is perhaps most easily -effected by the help of the fundamental properties of the curves -known as {\sl Spherical Conics}. As they are not usually familiar to -students, we make a slight digression for the purpose of proving -these fundamental properties ; after Chasles, by whom and Magnus -they were discovered. An independent proof of the associative -principle will presently be indicated, and in Chapter VIII. we shall -employ quaternions to give an independent proof of the theorems -now to be established. - -{\bf 59}.* DEF. {\sl A spherical conic is the curve of intersection of a -cone of the second degree with a sphere, the vertex of the cone being -the centre of the sphere}. - -LEMMA. If a cone have one series of circular sections, it has -another series, and any two circles belonging to different series lie -on a sphere. This is easily proved as follows. - -Describe a sphere, $A$, cutting the cone in one circular section, -$C$, and in any other point whatever, and let the side $OpP$ of the -cone meet $A$ in $p$, $P$ ; $P$ being a point in $C$. Then $PO.Op$ is -constant, and, therefore, since $P$ lies in a plane, $p$ lies on a sphere, -$a$, passing through $0$. Hence the locus, $c$, of $p$ is a circle, being -the intersection of the two spheres $A$ and $a$. - -Let $OqQ$ be any other side of the cone, $q$ and $Q$ being points in -$c$, $C$ respectively. Then the quadrilateral $qQPp$ is inscribed in a -circle (that in which its plane cuts the sphere $A$) and the exterior - -\includegraphics{ps/quat11.ps} - -angle at $p$ is equal to the interior angle at $Q$. If $OL$, $OM$ be the -lines in which the plane $POQ$ cuts the {\sl cyclic planes} (planes through -$O$ parallel to the two series of circular sections) they are obviously -parallel to $pq$, $QP$, respectively; and therefore - -$$\angle LOp = \angle Opq = \angle OQP = \angle MOQ$$ - -Let any third side, $OrR$, of the cone be drawn, and let the -plane $OPR$ cut the cyclic planes in $0l$, $Om$ respectively. Then, -evidently, -$$\angle lOL = \angle qpr$$ -$$\angle MOm = \angle QPR$$ - -and these angles are independent of the position of the points $p$ -and $P$, if $Q$ and $R$ be fixed points. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat12.ps} - -In the annexed section of the above space-diagram by a sphere -whose centre is $O$, $lL$, $Mm$ are the great circles which represent -the cyclic planes, $PQR$ is the spherical conic which represents the -cone. The point $P$ represents the line $OpP$, and so with the -others. The propositions above may now be stated thus, - -$$\textrm{Arc } PL = \textrm{arc } MQ$$ - -and, if $Q$ and $R$ be fixed, $Mm$ and $lL$ are constant arcs whatever be -the position of $P$. - -{\bf 60}. The application to \S 58 is now obvious. In the figure of -that article we have -$$ -{\stackrel{\frown}{FE}}={\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}\textrm{, } -{\stackrel{\frown}{ED}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}\textrm{, } -{\stackrel{\frown}{HG}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}\textrm{, } -{\stackrel{\frown}{LM}}={\stackrel{\frown}{FD}} -$$ - -Hence $L$, $C$, $G$, $D$ are points of a spherical conic whose cyclic -planes are those of $AB$, $FE$. Hence also $KG$ passes through $L$, -and with $LM$ intercepts on $AB$ an arc equal to -${\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$. That is, it -passes through $N$, or $KG$ and $LN$ are arcs of the same great circle : -and they are equal, for $G$ and $L$ are points in the spherical -conic. - -Also, the associative principle holds for any number of -quaternion factors. For, obviously, - -$$qr . st = qrs . t = \textrm{\&c., \&c.,}$$ - -since we may consider $qr$ as a single quaternion, and the above -proof applies directly. - -{\bf 61}. That quaternion addition, and therefore also subtraction, -is commutative, it is easy to show. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat13.ps} - -For if the planes of two quaternions, -$q$ and $r$, intersect in the line $OA$, we -may take any vector $\overline{OA}$ in that line, -and at once find two others, $\overline{OB}$ and -$\overline{OC}$, such that - -$$\overline{OB} = q\overline{OA}$$ -and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{CO} = r\overline{OA}$ - -And\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$(q + r)\overline{OA} -\overline{OB}+\overline{OC}=\overline{OC}+\overline{OB}= -(r + q) \overline{OA}$ - -since vector addition is commutative (\S 27). - -Here it is obvious that $(q + r) \overline{OA}$, being the diagonal of the -parallelogram on $\overline{OB}$, $\overline{OC}$, -divides the angle between $OB$ and $OC$ -in a ratio depending solely on the ratio of the lengths of these -lines, i.e. on the ratio of the tensors of $q$ and $r$. This will be useful -to us in the proof of the distributive law, to which we proceed. - -{\bf 62}. Quaternion multiplication, and therefore division, is -distributive. One simple proof of this depends on the possibility, -shortly to be proved, of representing {\sl any} quaternion as a linear -function of three given rectangular unit- vectors. And when the -proposition is thus established, the associative principle may readily -be deduced from it. - -[But Hamilton seems not to have noticed that we may employ -for its proof the properties of Spherical Conies already employed - -\includegraphics{ps/quat14.ps} - -in demonstrating the truth of the associative principle. "For -continuity we give an outline of the proof by this process. - -Let ${\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}$ -represent the versors of $q$ and $r$, and be the great -circle whose plane is that of $p$. - -Then, if we take as operand the vector $\overline{OA}$, it is obvious that -$U (q + r)$ will be represented by some such arc as -${\stackrel{\frown}{DA}}$ where -$B$, $D$, $C$ are in one great circle; -for $(q + r) \overline{OA}$ is in the same plane -as $q\overline{OA}$ and $r\overline{OA}$, -and the relative magnitude of the arcs $BD$ and -$DC$ depends solely on the tensors of $q$ and $r$. Produce $BA$, $DA$, -$CA$ to meet be in $b$, $d$, $c$ respectively, and make - -$${\stackrel{\frown}{Eb}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}, -{\stackrel{\frown}{Fd}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{DA}}, -{\stackrel{\frown}{Gc}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{CA}}$$ - -Also make -${\stackrel{\frown}{b\beta}} = -{\stackrel{\frown}{d\delta}} = -{\stackrel{\frown}{c\gamma}}=p$. Then $E$, $F$, $G$, $A$ lie on a spherical -conic of which $BC$ and $bc$ are the cyclic arcs. And, because -${\stackrel{\frown}{b\beta}} = -{\stackrel{\frown}{d\delta}} = -{\stackrel{\frown}{c\gamma}}$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{\beta E}}$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{\delta F}}$, -${\stackrel{\frown}{\gamma G}}$, when produced, meet in a point $H$ -which is also on the spherical conic (\S 59*). Let these arcs meet $BC$ -in $J$, $L$, $K$ respectively. Then we have -$${\stackrel{\frown}{JH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{E\beta}}=pUq$$ -$${\stackrel{\frown}{LH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{F\delta}}=pU(q+r)$$ -$${\stackrel{\frown}{KH}}={\stackrel{\frown}{G\gamma}}=pUr$$ -Also\hbox{\hskip 4cm}${\stackrel{\frown}{LJ}}={\stackrel{\frown}{DB}}$\\ -and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}${\stackrel{\frown}{KL}}={\stackrel{\frown}{CD}}$ - -And, on comparing the portions of the figure bounded respectively -by $HKJ$ and by $ACB$ we see that (when considered with reference -to their effects as factors multiplying -$\overline{OH}$ and $\overline{OA}$ respectively) - -\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$pU(q4+r)$ bears the same relation to $pUq$ and $pUr$\\ -that\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$U(q+r)$ bears to $Uq$ and $Ur$.\\ -But\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$T(q+r)U(q+r)=q+r=TqUq+TrUr$. \\ -Hence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$T(q+r).pU(q+r)=Tq .pUq+Tr.pUr$;\\ -or, since the tensors are mere numbers and commutative with all -other factors, -$$p(q+r)=pq+pr$$ -In a similar manner it may be proved that -$$(q+ )p=qp+rp$$ -And then it follows at once that -$$(p + q) (r + s) = pr + ps + qr + qs$$ -where, by \S 61, the order of the partial products is immaterial.] - -{\bf 63}. By similar processes to those of \S 53 we see that versors, -and therefore also quaternions, are subject to the index-law -$$q^m.q^n=q^{m+n}$$ -at least so long as $m$ and $n$ are positive integers. - -The extension of this property to negative and fractional -exponents must be deferred until we have defined a negative or -fractional power of a quaternion. - -{\bf 64}. We now proceed to the special case of {\sl quadrantal} versors, -from whose properties it is easy to deduce all the foregoing -results of this chapter. It was, in fact, these properties whose -invention by Hamilton in 1843 led almost intuitively to the -establishment of the Quaternion Calculus. We shall content -ourselves at present with an assumption, which will be shown -to lead to consistent results ; but at the end of the chapter we -shall show that no other assumption is possible, following for this -purpose a very curious quasi-metaphysical speculation of Hamilton. - -{\bf 65}. Suppose we have a system of three mutually perpendicular -unit-vectors, drawn from one point, which we may call for shortness -{\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k}. -Suppose also that these are so situated that a positive -(i.e. {\sl left-handed}) rotation through a right angle about {\bf i} -as an axis -brings {\bf j} to coincide with {\bf k}. Then it is obvious that positive -quadrantal rotation about {\bf j} will make {\bf k} coincide with {\bf i}; -and, about {\bf k}, will make {\bf i} coincide with {\bf j}. - -For defniteness we may suppose {\bf i} to be drawn {\sl eastwards}, {\bf j} -{\sl northwards}, and {\bf k} {\sl upwards}. -Then it is obvious that a positive -(left-handed) rotation about the eastward line ({\bf i}) brings the northward -line ({\bf j}) into a vertically upward position ({\bf k}) ; and so of the -others. - -{\bf 66}. Now the operator which turns {\bf j} into {\bf k} is a quadrantal -versor (\S 53) ; and, as its axis is the vector {\bf i}, -we may call it {\sl i}. - -Thus $$\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{{\rm {\bf j}}}= -i\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf k}}=i{\rm {\bf j}}\eqno{(1)}$$ - -Similary we may put$$\frac{{\rm {\bf i}}}{{\rm {\bf k}}}= -j\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf i}}=j{\rm {\bf k}}\eqno{(2)}$$ - -and $$\frac{{\rm {\bf j}}}{{\rm {\bf i}}}= -k\textrm{, or }{\rm {\bf j}}=k{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(3)}$$ - -[It may be here noticed, merely to show the symmetry of the -system we arc explaining, that if the three mutually perpendicular -vectors {\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} -be made to revolve about a line equally inclined to -all, so that {\bf i} is brought to coincide with {\bf j}, -{\bf j} will then coincide -with {\bf k}, and {\bf k} with {\bf i}: -and the above equations will still hold good, -only (1) will become (2), (2) will become (3), and (3) will become (1).] - -{\bf 67}. By the results of \S 50 we see that -$$\frac{-{\rm {\bf j}}}{\rm {\bf k}}=\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{\rm {\bf j}}$$ -i.e. a southward unit- vector bears the same ratio to an upward -unit-vector that the latter does to a northward one; and therefore -we have - -Thus $$\frac{-{\rm {\bf j}}}{{\rm {\bf k}}}= -i\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf j}}=i{\rm {\bf k}}\eqno{(4)}$$ - -Similary t$$\frac{-{\rm {\bf k}}}{{\rm {\bf i}}}= -j\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf k}}=j{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(5)}$$ - -and $$\frac{-{\rm {\bf i}}}{{\rm {\bf j}}}= -k\textrm{, or }-{\rm {\bf i}}=k{\rm {\bf j}}\eqno{(6)}$$ - -{\bf 68}. By (4) and (1) we have - -$$-j = ik = i(ij)\textrm{ (by the assumption in \S 54) }= i^2j$$ - -Hence -$$i^2 = - 1\eqno{(7)}$$ - -Arid in the same way, (5) and (2) give -$$j^2=-1\eqno{(8)}$$ -and (6) and (3) -$$k^2=-1\eqno{(9)}$$ - -Thus, as the directions of {\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} -are perfectly arbitrary, we see that -{\sl the square of every quadrantal versor is negative unity}. - -[Though the following proof is in principle exactly the same as -the foregoing, it may perhaps be of use to the student, in showing -him precisely the nature as well as the simplicity of the step we -have taken. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat15.ps} - -Let $ABA^{'}$ be a semicircle, whose centre -is $0$, and let $OB$ be perpendicular to $AOA^{'}$. - -Then ${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA^{'}}}}=q$ -suppose, is a quadrantal versor, and is evidently equal to -${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OB}}}$ ; - -\S\S 50, 53. Hence - -$$q^2=\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OB}}. -\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}= -\frac{\overline{OA^{'}}}{\overline{OA}}=-1]$$ - -{\bf 69}. -Having thus found that the squares of {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} are each -equal to negative unity ; it only remains that we find the values of -their products two and two. For, as we shall see, the result is such -as to show that the value of any other combination whatever of -{\sl i},{\sl j}, {\sl k} -(as factors of a product) may be deduced from the values of -these squares and products. - -Now it is obvious that -$$\frac{{\rm {\bf k}}}{\rm {\bf -i}}= -\frac{{\rm {\bf i}}}{\rm {\bf k}}=j$$ -(i.e. the versor which turns a westward unit-vector into an upward -one will turn the upward into an eastward unit) ; or -$${\rm {\bf k}}=j({\rm {\bf -i}}) = -j{\rm {\bf i}}\eqno{(10)}$$ - -Now let us operate on the two equal vectors in (10) by the -same versor, {\sl i}, and we have -$$i{\rm {\bf k}} = i(-j{\rm {\bf i}}) = -j{\rm {\bf i}}$$ -But by (4) and (3) -$$i{\rm {\bf k}}={\rm {\bf -j}}=-k{\rm {\bf i}}$$ - -Comparing these equations, we have -$$-ij{\rm {\bf i}}=-k{\rm {\bf i}}$$ -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{lr} -\textrm{or, \S 54 (end), } &ij=k\\ -\textrm{and symmetry gives}&jk=i\\ - &ki=j\\ -\end{array} -\right\}\eqno{(11)} -$$ - -The meaning of these important equations is very simple ; and -is, in fact, obvious from our construction in \S 54 for the multiplication -of versors ; as we see by the annexed figure, where we must -remember that {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} -are quadrantal versors whose planes are at -right angles, so that the figure represents -a hemisphere divided into quadrantal -triangles. [The arrow-heads indicate the -direction of each vector arc.] - -\includegraphics{ps/quat16.ps} - -Thus, to show that $ij = k$, we have, -$O$ being the centre of the sphere, $N$, $E$, -$S$, $W$ the north, east, south, and west, -and $Z$ the zenith (as in \S 65) ; - -$$j\overline{OW}=\overline{OZ}$$ -whence\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$ij\overline{OW}=i\overline{OZ}= -\overline{OS} = k\overline{OW}$ - -* The negative sign, being a mere numerical factor, is evidently commutative -with $j$ indeed we may, if necessary, easily assure ourselves of the fact -that to turn the negative (or reverse) of a vector through a right -(or indeed any) angle, is the same thing as to turn the vector through -that angle and then reverse it. - -{\bf 70}. But, by the same figure, -$$i\overline{ON}=\overline{OZ}$$ -whence\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$ji\overline{ON} =j\overline{OZ} -= \overline{OE} = -\overline{OW} = - k\overline{ON}$. - -{\bf 71}. From this it appears that -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{c} -ji = -k\\ -kj = -i\\ -ik = -j\\ -\end{array} -\right\}\eqno{(12)} -$$ -and thus, by comparing (11), -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{c} -ij=-ji=k\\ -jk=-kj=i\\ -ki=-ik=j\\ -\end{array} -\right\}\eqno{(11),(12)} -$$ - -These equations, along with -$$i^2=j^2=k^2=-1\eqno{((7),(8),(9))}$$ -contain essentially the whole of Quaternions. But it is easy to see -that, for the first group, we may substitute the single equation -$$ijk=-1\eqno{(13)}$$ -since from it, by the help of the values of the squares of -{\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k}, all -the other expressions may be deduced. We may consider it proved -in this way, or deduce it afresh from the figure above, thus -$$k\overline{ON}=\overline{OW}$$ -$$jk\overline{ON}=j\overline{OW}=\overline{OZ}$$ -$$ijk\overline{ON}=ij\overline{OW}=i\overline{OZ}= -\overline{OS}=-\overline{ON}$$ - -{\bf 72}. One most important step remains to be made, to wit the -assumption referred to in \S 64. We have treated -{\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} simply as -quadrantal versors ; and -{\bf i}, {\bf j}, {\bf k} as unit-vectors at right angles to -each other, and coinciding with the axes of rotation of these versors. -But if we collate and compare the equations just proved we have - -\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} -\vbox{ -\hbox{$i^2=-1$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(7)} -\hbox{${\rm {\bf i}}^2=-1$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(\S 9)}}} - -\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} -\vbox{ -\hbox{$ij=k$\hbox{\hskip 5.3cm}(11)} -\hbox{$i{\rm {\bf j}}={\rm {\bf k}}$\hbox{\hskip 5.3cm}(1)}}} - -\hbox{\hskip 4cm {\Huge \{} -\vbox{ -\hbox{$ji=-k$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(11)} -\hbox{$j{\rm {\bf i}}=-{\rm {\bf k}}$\hbox{\hskip 5cm}(1)}}} - -with the other similar groups symmetrically derived from them. - -Now the meanings we have assigned to {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} are quite -independent of, and not inconsistent with, those assigned to -{\rm {\bf i}}, {\rm {\bf j}}, {\rm {\bf k}}. -And it is superfluous to use two sets of characters when one will -suffice. Hence it appears that {\sl i}, {\sl j}, {\sl k} -may be substituted for {\rm {\bf i}}, {\rm {\bf j}}, {\rm {\bf k}}; -in other words, {\sl a unit-vector when employed as a factor may be -considered as a quadrantal versor whose plane is perpendicular to the -vector}. (Of course it follows that every vector can be treated as the -product of a number and a quadrantal versor.) This is one of the -main elements of the singular simplicity of the quaternion calculus. - -{\bf 73}. Thus {\sl the product, and therefore the quotient, of two -perpendicular vectors is a third vector perpendicular to both}. - -Hence the reciprocal (\S 51) of a vector is a vector which has -the {\sl opposite} direction to that of the vector, arid its length is the -reciprocal of the length of the vector. - -The conjugate (\S 52) of a vector is simply the vector reversed. - -Hence, by \S 52, if $\alpha$ be a vector -$$(Ta)^2 = \alpha K\alpha = \alpha ( - \alpha) = -\alpha{}^2$$ - -{\bf 74}. We may now see that {\sl every versor may be represented by -a power of a unit-vector}. - -For, if $\alpha$ be any vector perpendicular to $i$ (which is -{\sl any} definite unit-vector), -$i\alpha = \beta$ is a vector equal in length to $\alpha$, -but perpendicular to both $i$ and $\alpha$ -$$ -\begin{array}{ccl} -i^2\alpha & = & -\alpha\\ -\i^3\alpha & = & -i\alpha = -\beta\\ -\i^4\alpha & = & -i\beta = -i^2\alpha = \alpha -\end{array} -$$ -Thus, by successive applications of $i$, $\alpha$. -is turned round $i$ as an axis -through successive right angles. Hence it is natural to {\sl define} -$i^m$ {\sl as -a versor which turns any vector perpendicular to i through m right -angles in the positive direction of rotation about i as an axis}. Here -$m$ may have any real value whatever, whole or fractional, for it is -easily seen that analogy leads us to interpret a negative value of $m$ -as corresponding to rotation in the negative direction. - -{\bf 75}. From this again it follows that {\sl any quaternion may be -expressed as a power of a vector}. For the tensor and versor -elements of the vector may be so chosen that, when raised to the -same power, the one may be the tensor and the other the versor -of the given quaternion. The vector must be, of course, perpen -dicular to the plane of the quaternion. - -{\bf 76}. And we now see, as an immediate result of the last two -sections, that the index-law holds with regard to powers of a -quaternion (\S 63). - -{\bf 77}. So far as we have yet considered it, a quaternion has been -regarded as the {\sl product} of a tensor and a versor: we are now to -consider it as a {\sl sum}. The easiest method of so analysing it seems -to be the following. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat17.ps} - -Let ${\displaystyle\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}}$ -represent any quaternion. Draw $BC$ perpendicular to $OA$, -produced if necessary. - -Then, \S 19, $\overline{OB} = \overline{OC} + \overline{CB}$\\ - -But, \S 22, $\overline{OC}=x\overline{OA}$\\ -where $x$ is a number, whose sign is the same -as that of the cosine of $\angle AOB$. - -Also, \S 73, since $CB$ is perpendicular to $OA$, -$$\overline{CB}=\gamma\overline{OA}$$ -where $\gamma$ is a vector perpendicular to $OA$ and $CB$, i.e. to the plane -of the quaternion; and, as the figure is drawn, directed {\sl towards} the -reader. - -Hence -$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}= -\frac{x\overline{OA}+\gamma\overline{OA}}{\overline{OA}}= -x+\gamma$$ - -Thus a quaternion, in general, may be decomposed into the sum -of two parts, one numerical, the other a vector. Hamilton calls -them the SCALAR, and the VECTOR, and denotes them respectively -by the letters $S$ and $V$ prefixed to the expression for the -quaternion. - -{\bf 78}. Hence $q = Sq+ Vq$, and if in the above example -$$\frac{\overline{OB}}{\overline{OA}}=q$$ -then -$$\overline{OB}=\overline{OC}+\overline{CB}= -Sq.\overline{OA}+Vq.\overline{OA} -\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript -\footnote{ -The points are inserted to show that $S$ and $V$ -apply only to $q$, and not to $q\overline{OA}$.} -$$ - -The equation above gives -$$\overline{OC}=Sq.\overline{OA}$$ -$$\overline{CB}=Vq.\overline{OA}$$ - -{\bf 79}. If, in the last figure, we produce $BC$ to $D$, so as to double -its length, and join $OD$, we have, by \S 52, -$$\frac{\overline{OD}}{\overline{OA}}=Kq=SKq+VKq$$ -so that\hbox{\hskip 1cm} -$\overline{OD}=\overline{OC}+\overline{CD}= -SKq.\overline{OA}+VKq.\overline{OA}$\\ -Hence\hbox{\hskip 3.6cm}$\overline{OC}=SKq.\overline{OA}$\\ -and\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$\overline{CD}=VKq.\overline{OA}$\\ -Comparing this value of $\overline{OC}$ with that in last section, we find -$$SKq=Sq\eqno{(1)}$$ -or {\sl the scalar of the conjugate of a quaternion is equal to the scalar of -the quaternion}. - -Again, $\overline{CD} = -\overline{CB}$ -by the figure, and the substitution of their values gives -$$VKq=-Vq\eqno{(2)}$$ -or {\sl the vector of the conjugate of a quaternion is the vector of the -quaternion reversed}. - -We may remark that the results of this section are simple con -sequences of the fact that the symbols $S$, $V$, $K$ are commutative -\setcounter{footnote}{1}%% use a dagger because number looks like superscript -\footnote{ -It is curious to compare the properties of these quaternion symbols with those -of the Elective Symbols of Logic, as given in BOOLE'S -wonderful treatise on the {\sl Laws of Thought}; and to think that the -same grand science of mathematical analysis, by processes remarkably -similar to each other, reveals to us truths in the science of position -far beyond the powers of the geometer, and truths of deductive -reasoning to which unaided thought could never have led the logician. }. - -Thus\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$SKq = KSq = Sq$, \\ -since the conjugate of a number is the number itself; and -$$VKq=KVq=-Vq (\S 73)$$ - -Again, it is obvious that, -$$\sum{Sq}=S\sum{q},\;\;\;\;\sum{Vq}=V\sum{q}$$ -and thence\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\sum{Kq}=K\sum{q}$ - -{\bf 80}. Since any vector whatever may be represented by -$$xi+yj+zk$$ -where $x$, $y$, $z$ are numbers (or Scalars), -and $i$, $j$, $k$ may be any three -non-coplanar vectors, \S\S 23, 25 though they are usually understood -as representing a rectangular system of unit-vectors and -since any scalar may be denoted by $w$; we may write, for any -quaternion $q$, the expression -$$q=w+xi+yj+zk (\S 78)$$ - -Here we have the essential dependence on four distinct numbers, -from which the quaternion derives its name, exhibited in the most -simple form. - -And now we see at once that an equation such as -$$q^{'}=q$$ -where\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$q^{'}=w^{'}+x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k$\\ -involves, of course, the {\sl four} equations -$$ -w^{'}=w\textrm{, } -x^{'}=x\textrm{, } -y^{'}=y\textrm{, } -z^{'}=z -$$ - -{\bf 81}. We proceed to indicate another mode of proof of the distributive -law of multiplication. - -We have already defined, or assumed (\S 61), that -$$\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\alpha}$$ -or\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\beta\alpha^{-1}+\gamma\alpha^{-1}= -(\beta+\gamma)\alpha^{-1}$\\ -and have thus been able to understand what is meant by adding -two quaternions. - -But, writing $\alpha$ for $\alpha^{-1}$, -we see that this involves the equality -$$(\beta+\gamma)\alpha = \beta\alpha+\gamma\alpha$$ -from which, by taking the conjugates of both sides, we derive -$$\alpha^{'}(\beta^{'}+\gamma^{'})=\alpha^{'}\beta^{'}+\alpha^{'}\gamma^{'} -(\S 55)$$ -And a combination of these results (putting -$\beta+\gamma$ for $\alpha^{'}$ in the latter, for instance) gives -$$ -\begin{array}{lcr} -(\beta+\gamma)(\beta^{'}+\gamma^{'}) & = & -(\beta+\gamma)\beta^{'}+(\beta+\gamma)\gamma^{'}\\ -& = & \beta\beta^{'}+\gamma\beta^{'}+\beta\gamma^{'}+\gamma\gamma^{'} -\end{array} -$$ -by the former. - -Hence the {\sl distributive principle is true in the multiplication of -vectors}. - -It only remains to show that it is true as to the scalar and -vector parts of a quaternion, and then we shall easily attain the -general proof. - -Now, if $a$ be any scalar, $\alpha$ any vector, and $q$ any quaternion, -$$(a+\alpha)q=aq+\alpha q$$ - -For, if $\beta$ be the vector in which the plane of $q$ is intersected by -a plane perpendicular to $\alpha$, we can find other two vectors, -$\gamma$ and $\delta$ one in each of these planes such that -$$\alpha=\frac{\gamma}{\beta},\;\;\;\;\;q=\frac{\beta}{\delta}$$ -And, of course, $a$ may be written -${\displaystyle\frac{a\beta}{\beta}}$; so that -$$ -\begin{array}{ccl} -(a+\alpha)q & = & \frac{a\beta+\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\delta} -=\frac{a\beta+\gamma}{\delta}\\ -& & \\ -& = & a\frac{\beta}{\delta}+\frac{\gamma}{\delta}= -a\frac{\beta}{\delta}+\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\delta}\\ -& & \\ -& = & aq + \alpha q -\end{array} -$$ -And the conjugate may be written -$$q^{'}(a^{'}+\alpha^{'})=q^{'}a^{'}+q^{'}\alpha^{'} (\S 55)$$ -Hence, generally, -$$(a+\alpha)(b+\beta)=ab+a\beta+b\alpha+\alpha\beta$$ -or, breaking up $a$ and $b$ each into the sum of two scalars, and -$\alpha$, $\beta$ each into the sum of two vectors, \\ -$(a_1+a_2+\alpha_1+\alpha_2)(b_1+b_2+\beta_1+\beta_2)$ -$$=(a_1+a_2)(b_1+b_2) -+(a_1+a_2)(\beta_1+\beta_2) -+(b_1+b_2)(\alpha_1+\alpha_2) -+(\alpha_1+\alpha_2)(\beta_1+\beta_2) -$$ -(by what precedes, all the factors on the right are distributive, so -that we may easily put it in the form) -$$=(a_1+\alpha_1)(b_1+\beta_1) -+(a_1+\alpha_1)(b_2+\beta_2) -+(a_2+\alpha_2)(b_1+\beta_1) -+(a_2+\alpha_2)(b_2+\beta_2) -$$ - -Putting $a_1+\alpha_1=p,\;\;\;$ -$a_2+\alpha_2=q,\;\;\;$ -$b_1+\beta_1=r,\;\;\;$ $b_2+\beta_2=s$,\\ -we have $(p+q)(r+s)=pr+ps+qr+qs$ - -{\bf 82}. Cayley suggests that the laws of quaternion multiplication -may be derived more directly from those of vector multiplication, -supposed to be already established. Thus, let $\alpha$ be the unit vector -perpendicular to the vector parts of $q$ and of $q^{'}$. Then let -$$\rho=q.\alpha,\;\;\;\sigma=-\alpha .q^{'}$$ -as is evidently permissible, and we have -$$p\alpha=q.\alpha\alpha=-q;\;\;\;\alpha\sigma=-\alpha\alpha.q^{'}=q^{'}$$ -so that\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$-q.q^{'}=\rho\alpha.\alpha\sigma=-\rho.\sigma$ - -The student may easily extend this process. - -For variety, we shall now for a time forsake the geometrical -mode of proof we have hitherto adopted, and deduce some of our -next steps from the analytical expression for a quaternion given in -\S 80, and the properties of a rectangular system of unit-vectors as -in \S 71. - -We will commence by proving the result of \S 77 anew. - -{\bf 83}. Let -$$\alpha=xi+yj+zk$$ -$$\beta=x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k$$ -Then, because by \S 71 every product or quotient of $i$, $j$, $k$ is reducible -to one of them or to a number, we are entitled to assume -$$q=\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\omega+\xi i+\eta j +\zeta k$$ -where $\omega$, $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ are numbers. -This is the proposition of \S 80. - -[Of course, with this expression for a quaternion, there is no -necessity for a formal proof of such equations as -$$p + (q+r) = (p + q) + r$$ -where the various sums are to be interpreted as in \S 61. - -All such things become obvious in view of the properties of $i$, $j$ ,$k$.] - -{\bf 84}. But it may be interesting to find $\omega$, $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ -in terms of $x$, $y$, $z$, $x^{'}$, $y^{'}$ , $z^{'}$ . - -We have -$$\beta=q\alpha$$ -or -$$x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k=(\omega+\xi i+\eta j+\zeta k)(xi+yj+zk)$$ -$$=-(\xi x+\eta y+\zeta z) -+(\omega x+\eta z-\zeta y)i -+(\omega y+\zeta x-\xi z)j -+(\omega z+\xi y-\eta x)k -$$ -as we easily see by the expressions for the powers and products of -$i$, $j$, $k$ given in \S 71. But the student must pay particular attention -to the {\sl order} of the factors, else he is certain to make mistakes. - -This (\S 80) resolves itself into the four equations -$$ -\begin{array}{lllllllll} -0 & = & & & \xi x & + & \eta y & + & \zeta z\\ -x^{'} & = & \omega x & & & + & \eta z & - & \zeta y\\ -y^{'} & = & \omega y & - & \xi z & & & + & \zeta x\\ -z^{'} & = & \omega z & + & \xi y & - & \eta x\\ -\end{array} -$$ -The three last equations give -$$xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}=\omega(x^2+y^2+z^2)$$ -which determines $\omega$. - -Also we have, from the same three, by the help of the first, -$$\xi x^{'}+\eta y^{'}+\zeta z^{'} = 0$$ -which, combined with the first, gives -$$\frac{\xi}{yz^{'}-zy^{'}} -=\frac{\eta}{zx^{'}-xz^{'}} -=\frac{\zeta}{xy^{'}-yx^{'}} -$$ -and the common value of these three fractions is then easily seen -to be -$$\frac{1}{x^2+y^2+z^2}$$ - -It is easy enough to interpret these expressions by means of -ordinary coordinate geometry : but a much simpler process will -be furnished by quaternions themselves in the next chapter, and, in -giving it, we shall refer back to this section. - -{\bf 85}. The associative law of multiplication is now to be proved -by means of the distributive (\S 81). We leave the proof to the -student. He has merely to multiply together the factors -$$w+xi+yj+zk,\;\;\;\; -w+x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } -w^{''} + x^{''}i + y^{''}j + z^{''}k$$ - -as follows : - -First, multiply the third factor by the second, and then multiply -the product by the first; next, multiply the second factor by the -first and employ the product to multiply the third: always remembering -that the multiplier in any product is placed {\sl before} the -multiplicand. He will find the scalar parts and the coefficients of -$i$, $j$, $k$, in these products, respectively equal, each to each. - -{\bf 86}. -With the same expressions for $\alpha$, $\beta$, as in section 83, we -have -$$\alpha\beta=(xi+yj+zk)(x^{'}i+y^{'}j+z^{'}k)$$ -$$\;\;=-(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}) -+(yz^{'}-zy^{'})i -+(zx^{'}-xz^{'})j -+(xy^{'}-yx^{'})k -$$ - -But we have also -$$\beta\alpha= --(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'}) --(yz^{'}-zy^{'})i --(zx^{'}-xz^{'})j --(xy^{'}-yx^{'})k -$$ - -The only difference is in the sign of the vector parts. Hence -$$S\alpha\beta=S\beta\alpha\eqno{(1)}$$ -$$V\alpha\beta=-V\beta\alpha\eqno{(2)}$$ -$$\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha=2S\alpha\beta\eqno{(3)}$$ -$$\alpha\beta-\beta\alpha=2V\alpha\beta\eqno{(4)}$$ -$$\alpha\beta=K.\beta\alpha\eqno{(5)}$$ - -{\bf 87}. If $\alpha=\beta$ we have of course (\S 25) -$$x=x^{'},\;\;\;\;y=y^{'},\;\;\;\;z=z^{'}$$ -and the formulae of last section become -$$\alpha\beta=\beta\alpha=\alpha^2=-(x^2+y^2+z^2)$$ -which was anticipated in \S 73, where we proved the formula -$$(T\alpha)^2=-\alpha^2$$ -and also, to a certain extent, in \S 25. - -{\bf 88}. Now let $q$ and $r$ be any quaternions, then -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -S.qr & = & S.(Sq+Vq)(Sr+Vr)\\ - & = & S.(SqSr+Sr.Vq+Sq.Vr+VqVr)\\ - & = & SqSr+S.VqVr -\end{array} -$$ -since the two middle terms are vectors. -Similarly, -$$S.rq=SrSq+S.VrVq$$ -Hence, since by (1) of \S 86 we have -$$S.VqVr=S.VrVq$$ -we see that -$$S.qr=S.rq\eqno{(1)}$$ -a formula of considerable importance. - -It may easily be extended to any number of quaternions, -because, $r$ being arbitrary, we may put for it $rs$. Thus we have -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -S.qrs & = & S.rsq\\ -& = & S.sqr -\end{array} -$$ -by a second application of the process. In words, we have the -theorem {\sl the scalar of the product of any number of given -quaternions depends only upon the cyclical order in which they are -arranged}. - -{\bf 89}. An important case is that of three factors, each a vector. -The formula then becomes -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=S.\beta\gamma\alpha=S.\gamma\alpha\beta$$ -But -$$\begin{array}{rcll} -S.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & S\alpha(S\beta\gamma+V\beta\gamma) &\\ - & = & S\alpha V\beta\gamma & \textrm{since }\alpha S\beta\gamma -\textrm{ is a vector}\\ - & = & -S\alpha V\gamma\beta & \textrm{by (2) of \S 86}\\ - & = & -S\alpha(S\gamma\beta+V\gamma\beta) &\\ - & = & -S.\alpha\gamma\beta -\end{array} -$$ -Hence {\sl the scalar of the product of three vectors changes sign when -the cyclical order is altered.} - -By the results of \S\S 55, 73, 79 we see that, for any number -of vectors, we have -$$K.\alpha\beta\gamma\ldots\phi\chi= -\pm\chi\phi\ldots\gamma\beta\alpha$$ -(the positive sign belonging to the product of an even number of -vectors) so that -$$S.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi=\pm S.\chi\phi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ - -Similarly -$$V.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi=\mp V.\chi\phi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ -Thus we may generalize (3) and (4) of \S 86 into -$$2S.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi= -\alpha\beta\ldots\chi\phi\pm\phi\chi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ -$$2V.\alpha\beta\ldots\phi\chi= -\alpha\beta\ldots\chi\phi\mp\phi\chi\ldots\beta\alpha$$ -the upper sign still being used when the -number of factors is -even. - -Other curious propositions connected with this will be given -later (some, indeed, will be found in the Examples appended to -this chapter), as we wish to develop the really fundamental -formulae in as compact a form as possible. - -{\bf 90}. By (4) of \S 86, -$$2V\beta\gamma=\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta$$ -Hence -$$2V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=V.\alpha(\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta)$$ -(by multiplying both by $\alpha$, and taking the vector parts of each side) -$$=V(\alpha\beta\gamma+\beta\alpha\gamma-\beta\alpha\gamma-\alpha\gamma\beta)$$ -(by introducing the null term $\beta\alpha\gamma-\beta\alpha\gamma$). - -\noindent -That is -$$2V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=V.(\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha)\gamma --V(\beta S\alpha\gamma+\beta V\alpha\gamma+S\alpha\gamma .\beta+ -V\alpha\gamma .\beta$$ -$$=V.(2S\alpha\beta)\gamma-2V\beta S\alpha\gamma$$ -(if we notice that $V(V\alpha\gamma .\beta)=-V.\beta V\alpha\gamma$ -by (2) of \S 86). -Hence -$$V.\alpha V\beta\gamma=\gamma S\alpha\beta-\beta S\gamma\alpha\eqno{(1)}$$ -a formula of constant occurrence. - -Adding $\alpha S\beta\gamma$ to both sides, we get another most valuable -formula -$$V.\alpha\beta\gamma -=\alpha S\beta\gamma --\beta S\gamma\alpha -+\gamma S\alpha\beta\eqno{(2)} -$$ -and the form of this shows that we may interchange $\gamma$ and $\alpha$ -without altering the right-hand member. This gives -$$V.\alpha\beta\gamma = V.\gamma\beta\alpha$$ -a formula which may be greatly extended. (See \S89, above.) - -Another simple mode of establishing (2) is as follows : -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -K.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & -\gamma\beta\alpha\\ -\therefore 2V.\alpha\beta\gamma & = & -\alpha\beta\gamma-K.\alpha\beta\gamma\textrm{ (by \S 79(2))}\\ -& = & \alpha\beta\gamma + \gamma\beta\alpha\\ -& = & \alpha(\beta\gamma+\gamma\beta) --(\alpha\gamma+\gamma\alpha)\beta -+\gamma(\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha)\\ -& = & 2\alpha S\beta\gamma-2\beta S\alpha\gamma+2\gamma S\alpha\beta -\end{array} -$$ - -{\bf 91}. We have also -$$VV\alpha\beta V\gamma\delta = -VV\gamma\delta V\alpha\beta\;\;\;\; -\textrm{ by (2) of \S 86}$$ -$$=\delta S\gamma V\alpha\beta-\gamma S\delta V\alpha\beta -=\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma-\gamma S.\alpha\beta\delta$$ -$$=-\beta S\alpha V\gamma\delta+\alpha S\beta V\gamma\delta -=-\beta S.\alpha\gamma\delta+\alpha S.\beta\gamma\delta$$ -all of these being arrived at by the help of \S 90 (1) and of \S 89; -and by treating alternately $V\alpha\beta$ and -$V\gamma\delta$ as {\sl simple} vectors. - -Equating two of these values, we have -$$\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma -=\alpha S.\beta\gamma\delta -+\beta S.\gamma\alpha\delta -+\gamma S.\alpha\beta\delta\eqno{(3} -$$ -a very useful formula, expressing any vector whatever in terms -of three given vectors. [This, of course, presupposes that -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are not coplanar, \S 23. In fact, if they be coplanar, the factor -$S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ vanishes, -and thus (3) does not give an expression for $\delta$. -This will be shown in \S 101 below.] - -{\bf 92}. That such an expression as (3) is possible we knew already -by \S 23. For variety we may seek another expression of a similar -character, by a process which differs entirely from that employed -in last section. - -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -being any three non-coplanar vectors, we may derive -from them three others $V\alpha\beta$, $V\beta\gamma$, $V\gamma\alpha$ -and, as these will not be -coplanar, any other vector $\delta$ may be expressed as the sum of the -three, each multiplied by some scalar. It is required to find this -expression for $\delta$. - -Let -$$\delta=xV\alpha\beta+yV\beta\gamma+zV\gamma\alpha$$ -Then -$$S\gamma\delta=xS.\gamma\alpha\beta =xS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -the terms in y and z going out, because -$$S\gamma V\beta\gamma = S.\gamma\beta\gamma=S\beta\gamma^2 -=\gamma^2 S\beta=0$$ -for $\gamma^2$ is (\S 73) a number. - -Similarly -$$S\beta\delta=zS.\beta\gamma\alpha=zS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -and -$$S\alpha\delta=qS.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -Thus -$$\delta S.\alpha\beta\gamma=V\alpha\beta S\gamma\delta -+V\beta\gamma S\alpha\delta -+V\gamma\alpha S\beta\delta\eqno{(4)} -$$ - -{\bf 93}. We conclude the chapter by showing (as promised in \S 64) -that the assumption that the product of two parallel vectors is -a number, and the product of two perpendicular vectors a third -vector perpendicular to both, is not only useful and convenient, -but absolutely inevitable, if our system is to deal indifferently with -all directions in space. We abridge Hamilton s reasoning. - -Suppose that there is no direction in space pre-eminent, and -that the product of two vectors is something which has quantity, -so as to vary in amount if the factors are changed, and to have its -sign changed if that of one of them is reversed ; if the vectors be -parallel, their product cannot be, in whole or in part, a vector -{\sl inclined} to them, for there is nothing to determine the direction in -which it must lie. It cannot be a vector {\sl parallel} to them; for by -changing the signs of both factors the product is unchanged, -whereas, as the whole system has been reversed, the product -vector ought to have been reversed. Hence it must be a number. -Again, the product of two perpendicular vectors cannot be wholly -or partly a number, because on inverting one of them the sign of -that number ought to change; but inverting one of them is simply -equivalent to a rotation through two right angles about the other, -and (from the symmetry of space) ought to leave the number -unchanged. Hence the product of two perpendicular vectors must -be a vector, and a simple extension of the same reasoning shows -that it must be perpendicular to each of the factors. It is easy to -carry this farther, but enough has been said to show the character -of the reasoning. - -\section{Examples To Chapter 2.} - -{\bf 1}. It is obvious from the properties of polar triangles that any -mode of representing versors by the {\sl sides} of a spherical triangle -must have an equivalent statement in which they are represented -by {\sl angles} in the polar triangle. - -Show directly that the product of two versors represented -by two angles of a spherical triangle is a third versor represented -by the {\sl supplement} of the remaining angle of the triangle ; and -determine the rule which connects the {\sl directions} in which these -angles are to be measured. - -{\bf 2}. Hence derive another proof that we have not generally -$$pq=qp$$ - -{\bf 3}. Hence show that the proof of the associative principle, -\S 57, may be made to depend upon the fact that if from any point -of the sphere tangent arcs be drawn to a spherical conic, and also -arcs to the foci, the inclination of either tangent arc to one of the -focal arcs is equal to that of the other tangent arc to the other -focal arc. - -{\bf 4}. Prove the formulae -$$2S.\alpha\beta\gamma = \alpha\beta\gamma-\gamma\beta\alpha$$ -$$2V.\alpha\beta\gamma = \alpha\beta\gamma+\gamma\beta\alpha$$ - -{\bf 5}. Show that, whatever odd number of vectors be represented -by $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ \&c., we have always -$$ -V.\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon=V.\epsilon\delta\gamma\beta\alpha -$$ -$$ -V.\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon\zeta\eta -=V.\eta\zeta\epsilon\delta\gamma\beta\alpha,\textrm{ \&c.} -$$ - -{\bf 6}. Show that -$$ -S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha=-(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2 -$$ -$$ -V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= -V\alpha\beta(\gamma^2S\alpha\beta-S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha)+\ldots -$$ -and -$$ -V(V\alpha\beta V.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha) -=(\beta S\alpha\gamma-\alpha S\beta\gamma)S.\alpha\beta\gamma -$$ - -{\bf 7}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be any vectors at right angles to each other, show that -$$ -(\alpha^3+\beta^3+\gamma^3)S.\alpha\beta\gamma -=\alpha^4V\beta\gamma -+\beta^4V\gamma\alpha -+\gamma^4V\alpha\beta -$$ -$$ -(\alpha^{2n-1}+\beta^{2n-1}+\gamma^{2n-1})S.\alpha\beta\gamma -=\alpha^{2n}V\beta\gamma -+\beta^{2n}V\gamma\alpha -+\gamma^{2n}V\alpha\beta -$$ - -{\bf 8}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be non-coplanar vectors, find the relations among -the six scalars, $x$, $y$, $z$ and $\xi$, $\eta$, $\zeta$ -which are implied in the -equation -$$ -x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma -=\xi V\beta\gamma+\eta V\gamma\alpha+\zeta V\alpha\beta -$$ - -{\bf 9}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be any three non-coplanar vectors, express any -fourth vector, $\delta$, as a linear function of each of the following sets of -three derived vectors. -$$ -V.\gamma\alpha\beta,\;\;\;\;V.\alpha\beta\gamma,\;\;\;\; -V.\beta\gamma\alpha -$$ -and -$$ -V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha,\;\;\;\; -V.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta,\;\;\;\; -V.V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma -$$ - -{\bf 10}. Eliminate $\rho$ from the equations -$$ -S\alpha\rho=a,\;\;\;\; -S\beta\rho=b,\;\;\;\; -S\gamma\rho=c,\;\;\;\; -S\delta\rho=d -$$ -where $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\delta$ -are vectors, and $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ scalars. - -{\bf 11}. In any quadrilateral, plane or gauche, the sum of the -squares of the diagonals is double the sum of the squares of the -lines joining the middle points of opposite sides. - -\chapter{Interpretations And Transformations} - -{\bf 94}. Among the most useful characteristics of the Calculus of -Quaternions, the ease of interpreting its formulae geometrically, -and the extraordinary variety of transformations of which the -simplest expressions are susceptible, deserve a prominent place. -We devote this Chapter to some of the more simple of these, -together with a few of somewhat more complex character but of -constant occurrence in geometrical and physical investigations. -Others will appear in every succeeding Chapter. It is here, -perhaps, that the student is likely to feel most strongly the -peculiar difficulties of the new Calculus. But on that very account -he should endeavour to master them, for the variety of forms -which any one formula may assume, though puzzling to the -beginner, is of the utmost advantage to the advanced student, not -alone as aiding him in the solution of complex questions, but -as affording an invaluable mental discipline. - -{\bf 95}. If we refer again to the figure of \S 77 we see that -$$OC=OB\cos AOB$$ -$$CB=OB \sin AOB$$ -Hence if -$$\overline{AB}=\alpha,\;\;\;\; -\overline{OB}=\beta,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } -\angle AOB=\theta -$$ -we have -$$OB=T\beta,\;\;\;\;OA=T\alpha$$ -$$OC=T\beta\cos\theta,\;\;\;\;CB=T\beta\sin\theta -$$ -Hence -$$S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= -\frac{OC}{OA}= -\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\cos\theta -$$ -Similarly, -$$ -TV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{CB}{OA}=\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\sin\theta -$$ - -Hence, if $\eta$ be a unit-vector perpendicular to -$\alpha$ and $\beta$, and such -that positive rotation about it, through the angle $\theta$, turns $\alpha$ -towards $\beta$ or -$$ -\eta= -\frac{U\overline{CB}}{U\overline{OA}}= -U\frac{\overline{CB}}{\overline{OA}}= -UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha} -$$ -we have -$$ -V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= -\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}\sin\theta .\eta\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{ (See, again, \S 84)} -$$ - -{\bf 96}. In the same way, or by putting -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\alpha\beta & = & S\alpha\beta+V\alpha\beta\\ - & = & S\beta\alpha - V\beta\alpha\\ - & = & \alpha^2\left(S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}-V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right)\\ - & = & T\alpha^2\left(-S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right) -\end{array} -$$ -we may show that -$$S\alpha\beta=-T\alpha T\beta\cos\theta$$ -$$TV\alpha\beta = T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta$$ -and -$$V\alpha\beta=T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta . \eta$$ -where -$$\eta=UV\alpha\beta = U(-V\beta\alpha)=UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$$ - -Thus {\sl the scalar of the product of two vectors is the continued -product of their tensors and of the cosine of the supplement of the -contained angle}. - -{\sl The tensor of the vector of the product of two vectors is the con -tinued product of their tensors and the sine of the contained angle ; -and the versor of the same is a unit-vector perpendicular to both, -and such that the rotation about it from the first vector (i. e. the -multiplier) to the second is left-handed or positive}. - -{\sl Hence also $TV\alpha\beta$ -is double the area of the triangle two of whose -sides are $\alpha$, $\beta$.} - -{\bf 97}. (a) In any plane triangle $ABC$ we have -$$\overline{AC}=\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}$$ -Hence, -$$ -\overline{AC}^2=S.\overline{AC}\overline{AC}= -S.\overline{AC}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC}) -$$ - -With the usual notation for a plane triangle the interpretation -of this formula is -$$b^2 = -bc\cos A-ab\cos C$$ -or -$$b=c\cos C+c\cos A$$ - -(b) Again we have, obviously, -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -V.\overline{AB}\;\overline{AC}&=&V.\overline{AB}(\overline{AB}+\overline{BC})\\ -&=&V.\overline{AB}\;\overline{BC} -\end{array} -$$ -or -$$cb\sin A = ca\sin B$$ -whence -$$\frac{\sin A}{a}=\frac{\sin B}{b}=\frac{\sin C}{c}$$ - -These are truths, but not truisms, as we might have been led -to fancy from the excessive simplicity of the process employed. - -{\bf 98}. -From \S 96 it follows that, if $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be both actual (i. e. -real and non-evanescent) vectors, the equation -$$S\alpha\beta = 0$$ - - -shows that $\cos\theta=0$, or that -$\alpha$ is {\sl perpendicular} to $\beta$. And, in fact, -we know already that the product of two perpendicular vectors is -a vector. - -Again if -$$V\alpha\beta=0$$ -we must have $\sin\theta=0$, or -$\alpha$ is {\sl parallel} to $\beta$. We know already -that the product of two parallel vectors is a scalar. - -Hence we see that -$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ -is equivalent to -$$\alpha=V\gamma\beta$$ -where $\gamma$ is an undetermined vector; and that -$$V\alpha\beta=0$$ -is equivalent to -$$\alpha=x\beta$$ -where $x$ is an undetermined scalar. - -{\bf 99}. If we write, as in \S\S 83, 84, -$$\alpha=ix+jy+kz$$ -$$\beta=ix^{'}+jy^{'}+kz^{'}$$ -we have, at once, by \S 86, -$$\begin{array}{rcl} -S\alpha\beta&=&-xx^{'}-yy^{'}-zz^{'}\\ -&=&-rr^{'}\left( -\frac{x}{r}\frac{x^{'}}{r^{'}}+ -\frac{y}{r}\frac{y^{'}}{r^{'}}+ -\frac{z}{r}\frac{z^{'}}{r^{'}} -\right) -\end{array} -$$ -where -$$ -r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2},\;\;\;\; -r^{'}=\sqrt{x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2}} -$$ -Also -$$ -V\alpha\beta=rr^{'}\left\{ -\frac{yz^{'}-zy^{'}}{rr^{'}}i+ -\frac{zx^{'}-xz^{'}}{rr^{'}}j+ -\frac{xy^{'}=yx^{'}}{rr^{'}}k -\right\} -$$ - -These express in Cartesian coordinates the propositions we have -just proved. In commencing the subject it may perhaps assist -the student to see these more familiar forms for the quaternion -expressions ; and he will doubtless be induced by their appearance -to prosecute the subject, since he cannot fail even at this stage to -see how much more simple the quaternion expressions are than -those to which he has been accustomed. - -{\bf 100}. The expression -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -may be written -$$SV(\alpha\beta)\gamma$$ -because the quaternion $\alpha\beta\gamma$ may be broken up into -$$S(\alpha\beta)\gamma+V(\alpha\beta)\gamma$$ -of which the first term is a vector. - -But, by \S 96, -$$SV(\alpha\beta)\gamma=T\alpha T\beta\sin\theta S\eta\gamma$$ -Here $T\eta=1$, let $\phi$ be the angle between $\eta$ and $\gamma$, -then finally -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma = -T\alpha T\beta T\gamma\sin\theta\cos\phi$$ - -But as $\eta$ is perpendicular to $\alpha$ and $\beta$, -$T\gamma\cos\phi$ is the length of the -perpendicular from the extremity of $\gamma$ -upon the plane of $\alpha$, $\beta$. And -as the product of the other three factors is (\S 96) the area of the -parallelogram two of whose sides are $\alpha$, $\beta$, we see that the -magnitude of $S.\alpha\beta\gamma$, -independent of its sign, is {\sl the volume of the -parallelepiped of which three coordinate edges -are $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$}; -or six times the volume of the pyramid which has -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ for edges. - -{\bf 101}. Hence the equation -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=0$$ -if we suppose $\alpha\beta\gamma$ to be actual vectors, shows either that -$$\sin\theta=0$$ -or -$$\cos\phi=0$$ -i. e. {\sl two of the three vectors are parallel}, -or {\sl all three are parallel to one plane}. - -This is consistent with previous results, for if $\gamma=p\beta$ we have -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=pS.\alpha\beta^2=0$$ -and, if $\gamma$ be coplanar with $\alpha$,$\beta$, we have -$\gamma=p\alpha+q\beta$ and -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=S.\alpha\beta(p\alpha+q\beta)=0$$ - -{\bf 102}. -This property of the expression $S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ prepares us to -find that it is a determinant. And, in fact, if we take $\alpha$,$\beta$ as in -\S 83, and in addition -$$\gamma=ix^{''}+jy^{''}+kz^{''}$$ -we have at once -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=-x^{''}(yz^{'}-zy^{'})- -y^{''}(zx^{'}-xz^{'})- -z^{''}(xy^{'}-yx^{'})$$ -$$ -=-\left\vert -\begin{array}{ccc} -x & y & z\\ -x^{'} & y^{'} & z^{'}\\ -x^{''}&y^{''}&z^{''} -\end{array} -\right\vert -$$ -The determinant changes sign if we make any two rows change -places. This is the proposition we met with before (\S 89) in the -form -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=-S.\beta\alpha\gamma=S.\beta\gamma\alpha -\textrm{, \&c}$$ - -If we take three new vectors -$$\alpha_1=ix+jx^{'}+kx^{''}$$ -$$\beta_1 =iy+jy^{'}+ky^{''}$$ -$$\gamma_1=iz+jz^{'}+kz^{''}$$ -we thus see that they are coplanar if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ are so. -That is, if -$$S.\alpha\beta\gamma=0$$ -then -$$S.\alpha_1\beta_1\gamma_1=0$$ - -{\bf 103}. We have, by \S 52, -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -(Tq)^2 &=&qKq = (Sq+Vq)(Sq-Vq)\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 79)}\\ -&=&(Sq)^2-(Vq)^2\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{by algebra}\\ -&=&(Sq)^2+(TVq)^2\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 73)}\\ -\end{array} -$$ -If $q=\alpha\beta$, we have $Kq = \beta\alpha$, and the formula becomes -$$\alpha\beta . \beta\alpha = \alpha^2\beta^2= -(S\alpha\beta)^2-(V\alpha\beta)^2 -$$ - -In Cartesian coordinates this is\\ -\vskip 0.1cm -$(x^2+y^2+z^z)(x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2})$ -$$ -=(xx^{'}+yy^{'}+zz^{'})^2+(yz^{'}-zy^{'})^2+ -(zx^{'}-xz^{'})^2+(xy^{'}-yx^{'})^2 -$$ -More generally we have -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -(T(qr))^2&=&(Tq)^2(Tr)^2\\ -&=&(S.qr)^2-(V.qr)^2 -\end{array} -$$ -If we write -$$q=w+\alpha=w+ix+jy+kz$$ -$$r=w^{'}+\beta=w^{'}+ix^{'}+jy^{'}+kz^{'}$$ -this becomes -$$(w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2)(w^{'2}+x^{'2}+y^{'2}+z^{'2})$$ -$$=(ww^{'}-xx^{'}-yy^{'}-zz^{'})^2+(wx^{'}+w^{'}x+yz^{'}-zy^{'})^2$$ -$$=(xy^{'}+w^{'}y+zx^{'}-xz^{'})^2+(wz^{'}+w^{'}z+xy^{'}-yx^{'})^2$$ -a formula of algebra due to Euler. - -{\bf 104}. We have, of course, by multiplication, -$$ -(\alpha+\beta)^2= -\alpha^2+\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha+\beta^2= -\alpha^2+2S\alpha\beta+\beta^2\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 86 (3))} -$$ -Translating into the usual notation of plane trigonometry, this -becomes -$$c^2=a^2-2ab\cos C+b^2$$ -the common formula. - -Again, -$$ -V.(\alpha+\beta)(\alpha-\beta)= --V\alpha\beta+V\beta\alpha= --2V\alpha\beta\;\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 86 (2)} -$$ -Taking tensors of both sides we have the theorem, {\sl the parallelogram -whose sides are parallel and equal to the diagonals of a -given parallelogram, has double its area} (\S 96). - -Also -$$S(\alpha+\beta)(\alpha-\beta)=\alpha^2-\beta^2$$ -and vanishes only when $\alpha^2=\beta^2$, -or $T\alpha=T\beta$; that is, {\sl the diagonals -of a parallelogram are at right angles to one another, when, and -only when, it is a rhombus}. - -Later it will be shown that this contains a proof that the angle -in a semicircle is a right angle. - -{\bf 105}. The expression\hbox{\hskip 1cm}$\rho=\alpha\beta\alpha^{-1}$\\ -obviously denotes a vector whose tensor is equal to that of $\beta$. - -But we have\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$S.\beta\alpha\rho=0$\\ -so that $\rho$ is in the plane of $\alpha$, $\beta$ - -Also we have\hbox{\hskip 2cm}$S\alpha\rho=S\alpha\beta$\\ -so that $\beta$ and $\rho$ make equal angles with $\alpha$, -evidently on opposite -sides of it. Thus if $\alpha$ be the perpendicular to a reflecting surface -and $\beta$ the path of an incident ray, $-\rho$ will be the path of the -reflected ray. - -Another mode of obtaining these results is to expand the above -expression, thus, \S 90 (2), -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\rho&=&2\alpha^{-1}S\alpha\beta-\beta\\ -&=&2\alpha^{-1}S\alpha\beta-\alpha^{-1}(S\alpha\beta+V\alpha\beta)\\ -&=&\alpha^{-1}(S\alpha\beta-V\alpha\beta) -\end{array} -$$ -so that in the figure of \S 77 we see that if $\overline{OA}=\alpha$, -and $\overline{OB}=\beta$, we -have $\overline{OD} = \rho = \alpha\beta\alpha^{-1}$ - -Or, again, we may get the result at once by transforming the -equation to $\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=K(\alpha^{-1}\rho)=K\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$ - -{\bf 106}. For any three coplanar vectors the expression -$$\rho=\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -is (\S 101) a vector. It is interesting to determine what this vector -is. The reader will easily see that if a circle be described about -the triangle, two of whose sides are (in order) $\alpha$ and $\beta$, -and if from -the extremity of $\beta$ a line parallel to $\gamma$ be drawn, -again cutting the -circle, the vector joining the point of intersection with the origin -of $\alpha$ is the direction of the vector $\alpha\beta\gamma$. -For we may write it in the form -$$ -\rho=\alpha\beta^2\beta^{-1}\gamma= --(T\beta)^2\alpha\beta^{-1}\gamma= --(T\beta)^2\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\gamma -$$ -which shows that the versor $\displaystyle\left(\frac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)$ -which turns $\beta$ into a direction -parallel to $\alpha$, turns $\gamma$ into a direction parallel to $\rho$. -And this expresses the long-known property of opposite angles of a -quadrilateral inscribed in a circle. - -Hence if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be the sides of a triangle taken in order, the -tangents to the circumscribing circle at the angles of the triangle -are parallel respectively to -$$ -\alpha\beta\gamma,\;\;\;\; -\beta\gamma\alpha,\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and } -\gamma\alpha\beta -$$ - -Suppose two of these to be parallel, i. e. let -$$\alpha\beta\gamma=x\beta\gamma\alpha=x\alpha\gamma\beta\;\;\;\;(\S 90)$$ -since the expression is a vector. Hence -$$\beta\gamma=x\gamma\beta$$ -which requires either -$$x=1,\;\;\;\;V\gamma\beta=0\;\;\;\;\textrm{ or }\gamma \vert\vert \beta$$ -a case not contemplated in the problem; or -$$x=-1,\;\;\;\;S\beta\gamma=0$$ -i. e. the triangle is right-angled. And geometry shows us at once -that this is correct. - -Again, if the triangle be isosceles, the tangent at the vertex is -parallel to the base. Here we have -$$x\beta=\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -or -$$x(\alpha+\gamma)=\alpha(\alpha+\gamma)\gamma$$ -whence $x=\gamma^2=\alpha^2$, or $T\gamma=T\alpha$, as required. - -As an elegant extension of this proposition the reader may -prove that the vector of the continued product $\alpha\beta\gamma\delta$ -of the vectorsides of any quadrilateral inscribed in a sphere -is parallel to the radius drawn to the corner ($\alpha$, $\delta$). -[For, if $\epsilon$ be the vector from $\delta$, -$\alpha$ to $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\alpha\beta\epsilon$ and -$\epsilon\gamma\delta$ are (by what precedes) vectors {\sl touching} the -sphere at $\alpha$, $\delta$. And their product (whose vector part must be -parallel to the radius at $\alpha$, $\delta$) is -$$\alpha\beta\epsilon . \epsilon\gamma\delta=\epsilon^2 . -\alpha\beta\gamma\delta]$$ - -{\bf 107}. To exemplify the variety of possible transformations -even of simple expressions, we will take cases which are of -frequent occurrence in applications to geometry. - -Thus $$T(\rho+\alpha)=T(\rho-\alpha)$$ -[which expresses that if -$$ -\overline{OA}=\alpha\;\;\;\; -\overline{OA^{'}}=-\alpha\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;\; -\overline{OP}=\rho -$$ -we have\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$AP=A^{'}P$\\ -and thus that $P$ is any point equidistant from two fixed points,] -may be written $$(\rho+\alpha)^2=(\rho-\alpha)^2$$ -or\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\rho^2+2S\alpha\rho+\alpha^2= -\rho^2-2S\alpha\rho+\alpha^2\;\;\;\;\textrm{(\S 104)}$\\ -whence\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$S\alpha\rho=0$\\ -This may be changed to -$$\alpha\rho+\rho\alpha=0$$ -or -$$\alpha\rho+K\alpha\rho=0$$ -$$SU\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=0$$ -or finally, -$$TVU\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1$$ -all of which express properties of a plane. - -Again,\hbox{\hskip 4cm}$T\rho=T\alpha$\\ -may be written\hbox{\hskip 3.2cm}$\displaystyle T\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1$ -$$\left(S\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2-\left(V\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2=1$$ -$$(\rho+\alpha)^2-2S\alpha(\rho+\alpha)=0$$ -$$\rho=(\rho+\alpha)^{-1}\alpha(\rho+\alpha)$$ -$$S(\rho+\alpha)(\rho-\alpha)=0$$ -or finally, -$$T.(\rho+\alpha)(\rho-\alpha)=2TV\alpha\rho$$ - -All of these express properties of a sphere. They will be -interpreted when we come to geometrical applications. - -{\bf 108}. {\sl To find the space relation among five points.} - -A system of five points, so far as its internal relations are -concerned, is fully given by the vectors from one to the other four. -If three of these be called $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, the fourth, -$\delta$, is necessarily expressible as -$x\alpha+y\beta+z\gamma$. Hence the relation required must be -independent of x, y, z. - -But -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{rlll} -S\alpha\delta &=\;x\alpha^2 &+\;yS\alpha\beta &+\;zS\alpha\gamma\\ -S\beta\delta &=\;xS\beta\alpha &+\;y\beta^2 &+\;zS\beta\gamma\\ -S\gamma\delta &=\;xS\gamma\alpha &+\;yS\gamma\beta &+\;z\gamma^2\\ -S\delta\delta=\delta^2 &=\;xS\delta\alpha &+\;yS\delta\beta &+\;zS\delta\gamma -\end{array} -\right\}\eqno{(1)} -$$ -The elimination of $x$, $y$, $z$ gives a determinant of the fourth order, -which may be written -$$ -\left\vert -\begin{array}{cccc} -S\alpha\alpha & S\alpha\beta & S\alpha\gamma & S\alpha\delta\\ -S\beta\alpha & S\beta\beta & S\beta\gamma & S\beta\delta\\ -S\gamma\alpha & S\gamma\beta & S\gamma\gamma & S\gamma\delta\\ -S\delta\alpha & S\delta\beta & S\delta\gamma & S\delta\delta -\end{array} -\right\vert=0 -$$ -Now each term may be put in either of two forms, thus -$$S\beta\gamma=\frac{1}{2}\left\{\beta^2+\gamma^2-(\beta-\gamma)^2\right\}= --T\beta T\gamma\cos\widehat{\beta\gamma}$$ - - -If the former be taken we have the expression connecting the -distances, two and two, of five points in the form given by Muir -(Proc. R. S. E. 1889) ; if we use the latter, the tensors divide out -(some in rows, some in columns), and we have the relation among -the cosines of the sides and diagonals of a spherical quadrilateral. - -We may easily show (as an exercise in quaternion manipulation -merely) that this is the {\sl only} condition, by showing that from it -we can get the condition when any other of the points is taken as -origin. Thus, let the origin be at $\alpha$, the vectors are -$\alpha$, $\beta-\alpha$, $\gamma-\alpha$, $\delta-\alpha$. -But, by changing the signs of the first row, and first -column, of the determinant above, and then adding their values -term by term to the other rows and columns, it becomes -$$ -\left\vert -\begin{array}{cccc} -S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) -& S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\;\;\;-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ -S(\beta-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\beta-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) -& S(\beta-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\beta-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ -S(\gamma-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\gamma-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) -& S(\gamma-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\gamma-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha)\\ -S(\delta-\alpha)(-\alpha) & S(\delta-\alpha)(\beta-\alpha) -& S(\delta-\alpha)(\gamma-\alpha) & S(\delta-\alpha)(\delta-\alpha) -\end{array} -\right\vert -$$ -which, when equated to zero, gives the same relation as before. -[See Ex. 10 at the end of this Chapter.] - -An additional point, with $\epsilon=x^{'}\alpha+y^{'}\beta+z^{'}\gamma$ -gives six additional equations like (1) ; i. e. -$$ -\begin{array}{rlll} -S\alpha\epsilon&=x^{'}\alpha^2&+y^{'}S\alpha\beta&+z^{'}S\alpha\gamma\\ -S\beta\epsilon&=x^{'}S\beta\alpha&+y^{'}\beta^2&+z^{'}S\beta\gamma\\ -S\gamma\epsilon&=x^{'}S\gamma\alpha&+y^{'}S\gamma\beta&+z^{'}\gamma^2\\ -S\delta\epsilon&=x^{'}S\delta\alpha&+y^{'}S\delta\beta&+z^{'}S\delta\gamma\\ -&=xS\epsilon\alpha&+yS\epsilon\beta&+zS\epsilon\gamma\\ -\epsilon^2&=x^{'}S\alpha\epsilon&+y^{'}S\beta\epsilon&+z^{'}S\gamma\epsilon -\end{array} -$$ -from which corresponding conclusions may be drawn. - -Another mode of solving the problem at the head of this -section is to write the {\sl identity} -$$ -\sum m(\alpha-\theta)^2=\sum m\alpha^2-sS.\theta\sum m\alpha+\theta^2\sum m -$$ -where the $m$s are undetermined scalars, and the $\alpha$s are given -vectors, while $\theta$ is any vector whatever. - -Now, {\sl provided that the number of given vectors exceeds four}, we -do not completely determine the ms by imposing the conditions -$$\sum m=0,\;\;\;\;\sum m\alpha=0$$ -Thus we may write the above identity, for each of five vectors -successively, as -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_1)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ -\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_2)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ -\ldots\ldots &=& \ldots\\ -\sum m(\alpha-\alpha_n)^2 &=& \sum m\alpha^2\\ -\end{array} -$$ -Take, with these,\hbox{\hskip 3cm}$\sum m = 0$\\ -and we have six linear equations from which to eliminate the $m$s. -The resulting determinant is -$$ -\left\vert -\begin{array}{cccccc} -\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_s^2} & -\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_3^2} & . & -\overline{\alpha_1-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ -\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_s^2} & -\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_3^2} & . & -\overline{\alpha_2-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ -. & . & . & & . & \\ -. & . & . & & . & \\ -\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_1^2} & \overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_s^2} & -\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_3^2} & . & -\overline{\alpha_5-\alpha_5^2} & 1\\ -1 & 1 & . & . & 1 & 0\\ -\end{array} -\right\vert -\sum m\alpha^2=0 -$$ - -This is equivalent to the form in which Cayley gave the -relation among the mutual distances of five points. (Camb. Math. -Journ. 1841.) - -{\bf 109}. We have seen in \S 95 that a quaternion may be divided -into its scalar and vector parts as follows: -$$ -\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=S\frac{\beta}{\alpha}+V\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= -\frac{T\beta}{T\alpha}(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta) -$$ -where $\theta$ is the angle between the directions of -$\alpha$ and $\beta$ and $\displaystyle \epsilon=UV\frac{\beta}{\alpha}$ -is the unit-vector perpendicular to the plane of $\alpha$ -and $\beta$ so situated -that positive (i.e. left-handed) rotation about it turns -$\alpha$ towards $\beta$ - -Similarly we have (\S 96) -$$ -\begin{array}{rl} -\alpha\beta&=S\alpha\beta + V\alpha\beta\\ -&=T\alpha T\beta(-\cos\theta +\epsilon\sin\theta) -\end{array} -$$ -$\theta$ and $\epsilon$ having the same signification as before. - -{\bf 110}. Hence, considering the versor parts alone, we have -$$U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta$$ -Similarly -$$U\frac{\gamma}{\beta}=\cos\phi+\epsilon\sin\phi$$ -$\phi$ being the positive angle between the directions of -$\gamma$ and $\beta$, and $\epsilon$ -the same vector as before, if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be coplanar. - -Also we have -$$U\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}=\cos(\theta+\phi)+\epsilon\sin(\theta+\phi)$$ -But we have always -$$\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}$$ -and therefore -$$U\frac{\gamma}{\beta}.U\frac{\beta}{\alpha}=U\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}$$ -or -$$ -\cos(\phi+\theta)+\epsilon\sin(\phi+\theta)= -(\cos\phi+\epsilon\sin\phi)(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta) -$$ -$$ -=\cos\phi\cos\theta-\sin\phi\sin\theta+ -\epsilon(\sin\phi\cos\theta+\cos\phi\sin\theta) -$$ -from which we have at once the fundamental formulae for the -cosine and sine of the sum of two arcs, by equating separately the -scalar and vector parts of these quaternions. - -And we see, as an immediate consequence of the expressions -above, that -$$\cos m\theta+\epsilon\sin m\theta=(\cos\theta+\epsilon\sin\theta)^m$$ -if $m$ be a positive whole number. For the left-hand side is a versor -which turns through the angle $m\theta$ at once, while the right-hand -side is a versor which effects the same object by $m$ successive turn -ings each through an angle $\theta$. See \S\S 8, 9. - -{\bf 111}. To extend this proposition to fractional indices we have -only to write $\displaystyle \frac{\theta}{n}$ for $\theta$, -when we obtain the results as in ordinary trigonometry. - -From De Moivre's Theorem, thus proved, we may of course -deduce the rest of Analytical Trigonometry. And as we have -already deduced, as interpretations of self-evident quaternion -transformations (\S\S 97, 104), the fundamental formulae for the solution -of plane triangles, we will now pass to the consideration of spherical -trigonometry, a subject specially adapted for treatment by qua -ternions; but to which we cannot afford more than a very few -sections. (More on this subject will be found in Chap. XI in -connexion with the Kinematics of rotation.) The reader is referred to -Hamilton s works for the treatment of this subject by quaternion -exponentials. - -{\bf 112}. Let $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be unit-vectors drawn from the centr to the -corners $A$, $B$, $C$ of a triangle on the unit-sphere. Then it is evident -that, with the usual notation, we have (\S 96), -$$ -S\alpha\beta=-\cos c,\;\;\;\; -S\beta\gamma=-\cos a,\;\;\;\; -S\gamma\alpha=-\cos b -$$ -$$ -TV\alpha\beta=\sin c,\;\;\;\; -TV\beta\gamma=\sin a,\;\;\;\; -TV\gamma\alpha=\sin b -$$ -Also $UV\alpha\beta$, $UV\beta\gamma$, $UV\gamma\alpha$ -are evidently the vectors of the corners of the polar triangle. - -Hence -$$S.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma=\cos B\textrm{, \&c.}$$ -$$TV.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma=\sin B\textrm{, \&c.}$$ - -Now (\S 90 (1)) we have -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma&=&S.\alpha V(\beta V\beta\gamma)\\ -&=&-S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma + \beta^2S\alpha\gamma -\end{array} -$$ -Remembering that we have -$$ -SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma= -TV\alpha\beta TV\beta\gamma S.UV\alpha\beta UV\beta\gamma -$$ -we see that the formula just written is equivalent to -$$\sin a \sin c \cos B = -\cos a \cos c + \cos b$$ -or -$$\cos b = \cos a \cos c + \sin a \sin c \cos B$$ - -{\bf 113}. Again, -$$V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma=-\beta S\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -which gives -$$ -TV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma= -TS.\alpha\beta\gamma= -TS.\alpha V\beta\gamma= -TS.\beta V\gamma\alpha= -TS.\gamma V\alpha\beta -$$ -or -$$\sin a \sin c \sin B = \sin a \sin p_a = \sin b \sin p_b = \sin c \sin p_c$$ -where $p_a$ is the arc drawn from $A$ perpendicular to $BC$, \&c. -Hence -$$\sin p_a = \sin c \sin B$$ -$$\sin p_b = \frac{\sin a \sin c}{\sin b} \sin B$$ -$$\sin p_c = \sin a \sin B$$ - -{\bf 114}. Combining the results of the last two sections, we have -$$V\alpha\beta .V\beta\gamma=\sin a \sin c \cos B-\beta \sin a \sin c \sin B$$ -$$= \sin a \sin c (\cos B - \beta \sin B)$$ -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{lcl} -\textrm{Hence} & \hbox{\hskip 1cm} -& U.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma=(\cos B-\beta\sin B)\\ -\textrm{and} & \hbox{\hskip 1.1cm} -& U.V\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha=(\cos B+\beta\sin B) -\end{array} -\right\} -$$ -These are therefore versors which turn all vectors perpendicular to -$OB$ negatively or positively about $OB$ through the angle $B$. - -[It will be shown later (\S 119) that, in the combination -$$(\cos B+\beta\sin B)(\;\;\;\;)(\cos B -\beta\sin B)$$ -the system operated on is made to rotate, as if rigid, round the -vector axis $\beta$ through an angle $2B$.] - -As another instance, we have -$$ -\begin{array}{rl} -\tan B &=\displaystyle \frac{\sin B}{\cos B}\\ -&\\ -&=\displaystyle -\frac{TV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}{S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}\\ -&\\ -&=\displaystyle --\beta^{-1}\frac{V.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}{S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma}\\ -&\\ -&=\displaystyle --\frac{S.\alpha\beta\gamma}{S\alpha\gamma+S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma} -=\textrm{ \&c} -\end{array} -\eqno{(1)} -$$ - -The interpretation of each of these forms gives a different theorem -in spherical trigonometry. - -{\bf 115}. Again, let us square the equal quantities -$$ -V.\alpha\beta\gamma\;\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;\; -\alpha S\beta\gamma-\beta S\alpha\gamma+\gamma S\alpha\beta$$ -supposing $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ to be any unit-vectors whatever. We have -$$ --(V.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2= -S^2\beta\gamma + S^2\gamma\alpha + -S^2\alpha\beta + 2S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S\alpha\beta -$$ -But the left-hand member may be written as -$$T^2.\alpha\beta\gamma-S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma$$ -whence -$$ -1-S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma=S^2\beta\gamma +S^2\gamma\alpha + -S^2\alpha\beta+2S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S\alpha\beta -$$ -or -$$ -1-\cos^2 a - \cos^2 b - \cos^2 c + 2 \cos a \cos b \cos c$$ -$$= \sin^2 a \sin^2 p_a = \textrm{ \&c.}$$ -$$= \sin^2 a \sin^2 b \sin^2 C = \textrm{ \&c.}$$ -all of which are well-known formulae. - -{\bf 116}. Again, for any quaternion, -$$q=Sq+Vq$$ -so that, if $n$ be a positive integer, -$$q^n=(Sq)^n+n(Sq)^{n-1}Vq+ -\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(Sq)^{n-2}(Vq)^2+\ldots$$ -From this at once -$$S.q^n=(Sq)^n-\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(Sq)^{n-2}T^2Vq$$ -$$+\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}.\overline{n-3}}{1.2.3.4} -(Sq)^{n-4}T^4(Vq)-\textrm{\&c.,}$$ -$$V.q^n=Vq\left[n(Sq)^{n-1}- -\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}}{1.2.3} -(Sq)^{n-3}T^2Vq+\textrm{\&c.,}\right]$$ -If $q$ be a versor we have -$$q=\cos u +\theta\sin u$$ -so that -$$ -\begin{array}{rl} -S.q^n & =\displaystyle -(\cos u)^n-\frac{n.\overline{n-1}}{1.2}(\cos u)^{n-2}(\sin u)^2+\ldots\\ -&\\ -&=\displaystyle\cos nu;\\ -&\\ -V.q^n & =\displaystyle -\theta\sin u\left[n(\cos u)^{n-1}- -\frac{n.\overline{n-1}.\overline{n-2}}{1.2.3} -(\cos u)^{n-3}(\sin u)^2+\ldots\right]\\ -&\\ -&=\displaystyle\theta\sin nu; -\end{array} -$$ -as we might at once have concluded from \S 110. - -Such results may be multiplied indefinitely by any one who has -mastered the elements of quaternions. - -{\bf 117}. A curious proposition, due to Hamilton, gives us a -quaternion expression for the {\sl spherical excess} in any triangle. -The following proof, which is very nearly the same as one of his, -though by no means the simplest that can be given, is chosen here -because it incidentally gives a good deal of other information. -We leave the quaternion proof as an exercise. - -Let the unit-vectors drawn from the centre of the sphere to -$A$, $B$, $C$, respectively, be $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$. -It is required to express, as an -arc and as an angle on the sphere, the quaternion -$$\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$$ - -\includegraphics{ps/quat18.ps} - -The figure represents an orthographic projection made on a -plane perpendicular to $\gamma$. Hence $C$ is the centre of the circle $DEe$. -Let the great circle through $A$, $B$ meet $DEe$ in $E$, $e$, and let $DE$ be -a quadrant. Thus -${\stackrel{\frown}{DE}}$ represents $\gamma$ (\S 72). Also make -${\stackrel{\frown}{EF}} = {\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}$ -$=\beta\alpha^{-1}$ Then, evidently, -$${\stackrel{\frown}{DF}}=\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$$ -which gives the arcual representation required. - -Let $DF$ cut $Ee$ in $G$. Make $Ca = EG$, and join $D$, $a$, and $a$, $F$. -Obviously, as $D$ is the pole of $Ee$, $Da$ is a quadrant ; and since -$EG = Ca$, $Ga = EG$, a quadrant also. Hence $a$ is the pole of $DG$, -and therefore the quaternion may be represented by the angle -$DaF$. - -Make $Cb = Ca$, and draw the arcs $Pa\beta$, $Pb\alpha$ from $P$, the pole of -$AB$. Comparing the triangles $Eb\alpha$ and $ea\beta$, -we see that $E\alpha = e\beta$. -But, since $P$ is the pole of $AB$, $F\beta a$ is a right angle: and therefore -as $Fa$ is a quadrant, so is $F\beta$. Thus $AB$ is the complement of $E\alpha$ -or $\beta e$, and therefore -$$\alpha\beta=2AB$$ - -Join $bA$. and produce it to $c$ so that $Ac = bA$; join $c$, $P$, cutting -$AB$ in $o$. Also join $c$, $B$, and $B$, $a$. - -Since $P$ is the pole of $AB$, the angles at $o$ are right angles; -and therefore, by the equal triangles $b\alpha A$, $coA$, we have -$$\alpha A = Ao$$ -But -$$\alpha\beta = 2AB$$ -whence -$$oB=B\beta$$ -and therefore the triangles $coB$ and $Ba\beta$ are equal, and $c$, $B$, $a$ -lie on the same great circle. - -Produce $cA$ and $cB$ to meet in $H$ (on the opposite side of the -sphere). $H$ and $c$ are diametrically opposite, and therefore $cP$, -produced, passes through $H$. - -Now $Pa = Pb = PH$, for they differ from quadrants by the -equal arcs $a\beta$, $b\alpha$, $oc$. Hence these arcs divide the -triangle $Hab$ into three isosceles triangles. - -But -$$\angle PHb + \angle PHA = \angle aHb = \angle bca$$ -Also -$$\angle Pab = \pi - \angle cab - \angle PaH$$ -$$\angle Pba = \angle Pab = \pi - \angle cba - \angle PbH$$ -Adding, -$$2\angle Pab = 2\pi - \angle cab - \angle cba - \angle bca$$ -$$= \pi - (\textrm{spherical excess of }abc)$$ -But, as $\angle Fa\beta$ and $\angle Dae$ are right angles, we have -$$ -\textrm{angle of }\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma = -\angle FaD = \beta ae = \angle Pab -$$ -$$=\frac{\pi}{2} - \frac{1}{2}(\textrm{spherical excess of }abc)$$ - -[Numerous singular geometrical theorems, easily proved {\sl ab -initio} by quaternions, follow from this: e.g. The arc $AB$, which -bisects two sides of a spherical triangle $abc$, intersects the base at -the distance of a quadrant from its middle point. All spherical -triangles, with a common side, and having their other sides -bisected by the same great circle (i.e. having their vertices in a -small circle parallel to this great circle) have equal areas, \&c. ] - -{\bf 118}. Let $\overline{Oa}=\alpha^{'}$, $\overline{Ob}=\beta^{'}$, -$\overline{Oc}=\gamma^{'}$, and we have -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\left(\frac{\alpha^{'}}{\beta^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -\left(\frac{\beta^{'}}{\gamma^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -\left(\frac{\gamma^{'}}{\alpha^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}}&=& -{\stackrel{\frown}{Ca}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{cA}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{Bc}}\\ -&=&{\stackrel{\frown}{Ca}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{BA}}\\ -&=&{\stackrel{\frown}{EG}}.{\stackrel{\frown}{FE}}= -{\stackrel{\frown}{FG}} -\end{array} -$$ - -But $FG$ is the complement of $DF$. Hence the {\sl angle of the -quaternion} -$$ -\left(\frac{\alpha^{'}}{\beta^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -\left(\frac{\beta^{'}}{\gamma^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -\left(\frac{\gamma^{'}}{\alpha^{'}}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -$$ -{\sl is half the spherical excess of the triangle whose angular points are -at the extremities of the unit-vectors} $\alpha^{'}$, $\beta^{'}$, and -$\gamma^{'}$. - -[In seeking a purely quaternion proof of the preceding proposi -tions, the student may commence by showing that for any three -unit-vectors we have -$$ -\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\frac{\gamma}{\beta}\frac{\alpha}{\gamma}= --(\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma)^2 -$$ - -The angle of the first of these quaternions can be easily assigned; -and the equation shows how to find that of $\beta\alpha^{-1}\gamma$. - -Another easy method is to commence afresh by forming from -the vectors of the corners of a spherical triangle three new vectors -thus: -$$ -\alpha^{'}=\left(\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\alpha}^{2}\right)^2 .\;\alpha,\;\;\;\;\; -\textrm{\&c.} -$$ - -Then the angle between the planes of $\alpha$, $\beta^{'}$ and -$\gamma^{'}$, $\alpha$; or of $\beta$, $\gamma^{'}$ and $\alpha^{'}$, -$\beta$; or of $\gamma$, $\alpha^{'}$ and $\beta^{'}$, $\gamma$ -is obviously the spherical excess. - -But a still simpler method of proof is easily derived from the -composition of rotations.] - -{\bf 119}. It may be well to introduce here, though it belongs -rather to Kinematics than to Geometry, the interpretation of the -operator -$$q(\;\;\;)q^{-1}$$ - -By a rotation, about the axis of $q$, through double the angle of $q$, -the quaternion $r$ becomes the quaternion $qrq^{-1}$ . Its tensor and -angle remain unchanged, its plane or axis alone varies. - -\includegraphics{ps/quat19.ps} - -A glance at the figure is sufficient for -the proof, if we note that of course -$T . qrq^{-1} = Tr$, and therefore that we need -consider the {\sl versor} parts only. Let $Q$ -be the pole of $q$. -$$ -{\stackrel{\frown}{AB}}=q,\;\;\;\; -{\stackrel{\frown}{AB^{-1}}}=q^{-1},\;\;\;\; -{\stackrel{\frown}{B^{'}C^{'}}}=r -$$ -Join $C^{'}A$, and make -${\stackrel{\frown}{AC}}={\stackrel{\frown}{C^{'}A}}$. Join $CB$. - -Then ${\stackrel{\frown}{CB}}$ is $qrq^{-1}$, -its arc $CB$ is evidently equal in length to that -of $r$, $B^{'}C^{'}$; and its plane (making the same angle with -$B^{'}B$ that that of -$B^{'}C^{'}$ does) has evidently been made to revolve about $Q$, the -pole of $q$, through double the angle of $q$. - -It is obvious, from the nature of the above proof, that this -operation is distributive; i.e. that -$$q(r+s)q^{-1}=qrq^{-1}+qsq^{-1}$$ - -If $r$ be a vector, $=\rho$, then $q\rho q^{-1}$ -(which is also a vector) is the -result of a rotation through double the angle of $q$ about the axis -of $q$. Hence, as Hamilton has expressed it, if $B$ represent a rigid -system, or assemblage of vectors, -$$qBq^{-1}$$ -is its new position after rotating through double the angle of $q$ -about the axis of $q$. - -{\bf 120}. To compound such rotations, we have -$$r . qBq^{-1} . r^{-1} = rq . B . (rq)^{-1}$$ - -To cause rotation through an angle $t$-fold the double of the angle -of $q$ we write -$$q^{t}Bq^{-t}$$ - -To reverse the direction of this rotation write -$$q^{-t}Bq^{t}$$ - -To {\sl translate} the body $B$ without rotation, each point of it moving -through the vector $\alpha$, we write $\alpha + B$. - -To produce rotation of the translated body about the same axis, -and through the same angle, as before, -$$q(\alpha+B)q^{-1}$$ - -Had we rotated first, and then translated, we should have had -$$\alpha+qBq^{-1}$$ - -From the point of view of those who do not believe in the -Moon s rotation, the former of these expressions ought to be -$$q\alpha q^{-1}+B$$ -instead of -$$q\alpha q^{-1}+qBq^{-1}$$ -But to such men quaternions are unintelligible. - -{\bf 121}. The operator above explained finds, of course, some -of its most direct applications in the ordinary questions of -Astronomy, connected with the apparent diurnal rotation of the -stars. If $\lambda$ be a unit-vector parallel to the polar axis, and $h$ the -hour angle from the meridian, the operator is -$$ -\left(\cos\frac{h}{2}-\lambda\sin\frac{h}{2}\right) -\left(\;\;\;\;\right) -\left(\cos\frac{h}{2}+\lambda\sin\frac{h}{2}\right) -$$ -or -$$L^{-1}\left(\;\;\;\;\right)L$$ - -the inverse going first, because the {\sl apparent} rotation is negative -(clockwise). - -If the upward line be $i$, and the southward $j$, we have -$$\lambda = i\sin l-j\cos l$$ -where $l$ is the latitude of the observer. The meridian equatorial -unit vector is -$$\mu = i\cos l+j\sin l$$ -and $\lambda$, $\mu$, $k$ of course form a rectangular unit system. - -The meridian unit-vector of a heavenly body is -$$\delta=i\cos(l-d)+j\sin(l-d)$$ -$$=\lambda\sin d+\mu\cos d$$ -where $d$ is its declination. - -Hence when its hour-angle is $h$, its vector is -$$\delta^{'}=L^{-1}\delta L$$ - -The vertical plane containing it intersects the horizon in -$$iVi\delta^{'}=jSj\delta^{'}+kSk\delta^{'}$$ -so that -$$\tan(azimuth)=\frac{Sk\delta^{'}}{Sj\delta^{'}}\eqno{(1)}$$ - -[This may also be obtained directly from the last formula (1) -of \S 114.] - -To find its Amplitude, i.e. its azimuth at rising or setting, -the hour-angle must be obtained from the condition -$$Si\delta^{'}=0\eqno{(2)}$$ - -These relations, with others immediately deducible from them, -enable us (at once and for ever) to dispense with the hideous -formulae of Spherical Trigonometry. - -{\bf 122}. To show how readily they can be applied, let us -translate the expressions above into the ordinary notation. This -is effected at once by means of the expressions for $\lambda$, $\mu$, $L$, -and $\delta$ above, which give by inspection -$$\delta^{'}=\lambda\sin d+(\mu\cos h-k\sin h)\cos d$$ -= x sin d + (fjb cos h k sin h) cos d, -and we have from (1) and (2) of last section respectively -$$ -\tan(azimuth)= -\frac{\sin h\cos d}{\cos l\sin d-\sin l\cos d\cos h}\eqno{(1)} -$$ -$$ -\cos h+\tan l \tan d=0\eqno{(2)} -$$ - -In Capt. Weir s ingenious {\sl Azimuth Diagram}, these equations -are represented graphically by the rectangular coordinates of a -system of confocal conics: viz. -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{c} -x = \sin h \sec l \\ -y = \cos h \tan l -\end{array} -\right\}\eqno{(3)} -$$ - -The ellipses of this system depend upon $l$ alone, the hyperbolas -upon $h$. Since (1) can, by means of (3), be written as -$$\tan(azimuth)=\frac{x}{\tan d-y}$$ -we see that the azimuth can be constructed at once by joining -with the point $0$, $-\tan d$, the intersection of the proper ellipse and -hyperbola. - -Equation (2) puts these expressions for the coordinates in the -form -$$ -\left. -\begin{array}{c} -x=\sec l\sqrt{1-\tan^{2} l\tan^{2} d}\\ -y=-\tan^{2} l \tan d -\end{array} -\right\} -$$ - -The elimination of $d$ gives the ellipse as before, but that of $l$ -gives, instead of the hyperbolas, the circles -$$x^{2}+y^{2}-y(\tan d-\cot d)=1$$ - -The radius is -$$\frac{1}{2}(\tan d+ \cot d)$$ -and the coordinates of the centre are -$$0,\;\;\;\frac{1}{2}(\tan d- \cot d)$$ - -123. A scalar equation in $\rho$, the vector of an undetermined -point, is generally the equation of a {\sl surface}; since we may use -in it the expression -$$\rho=x\alpha$$ -where $x$ is an unknown scalar, and $\alpha$ any assumed unit-vector. -The result is an equation to determine $x$. Thus one or more -points are found on the vector $x\alpha$, whose coordinates satisfy the -equation; and the locus is a surface whose degree is determined -by that of the equation which gives the values of $x$. - -But a {\sl vector} equation in $\rho$, as we have seen, generally leads to -three scalar equations, from which the three rectangular or other -components of the sought vector are to be derived. Such a vector -equation, then, usually belongs to a definite number of {\sl points} in -space. But in certain cases these may form a {\sl line}, and even a -{\sl surface}, the vector equation losing as it were one or two of the -three scalar equations to which it is usually equivalent. - -Thus while the equation -$$\alpha\rho=\beta$$ -gives at once -$$\rho=\alpha^{-1}\beta$$ -which is the vector of a definite point, since by making $\rho$ a {\sl vector} -we have evidently assumed -$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ -the closely allied equation -$$V\alpha\rho=\beta$$ -is easily seen to involve -$$S\alpha\beta=0$$ -and to be satisfied by -$$\rho=\alpha^{-1}\beta+x\alpha$$ -whatever be $x$. Hence the vector of any point whatever in the -line drawn parallel to $\alpha$ from the extremity of $\alpha^{-1}\beta$ -satisfies the given equation. [The difference between the results depends -upon the fact that $S\alpha\rho$ is indeterminate in the second form, but -definite (= 0) in the first.] - -{\bf 124}. Again, -$$V\alpha\rho . V\rho\beta=(V\alpha\beta)^{2}$$ -is equivalent to but two scalar equations. For it shows that $V\alpha\rho$ -and $V\beta\rho$ are parallel, i.e. $\rho$ -lies in the same plane as $\alpha$ and $\beta$, and -can therefore be written (\S 24) -$$\rho=x\alpha+y\beta$$ -where $x$ and $y$ are scalars as yet undetermined. - -We have now -$$V\alpha\rho=yV\alpha\beta$$ -$$V\rho\beta=xV\alpha\beta$$ -which, by the given equation, lead to -$$xy=1,\;\;\;\textrm{or}\;\;\;y=\frac{1}{x}$$ -or finally -$$\rho=x\alpha+\frac{1}{x}\beta$$ -which (\S 40) is the equation of a hyperbola whose asymptotes are -in the directions of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. - -{\bf 125}. Again, the equation -$$V . V\alpha\beta V\alpha\rho=0$$ -though apparently equivalent to three scalar equations, is really -equivalent to one only. In fact we see by \S 91 that it may be -written -$$-\alpha S.\alpha\beta\rho=0$$ -whence, if $\alpha$ be not zero, we have -$$S . \alpha\beta\rho=0$$ -and thus (\S 101) the only condition is that $\rho$ is coplanar with -$\alpha$, $\beta$. -Hence the equation represents the plane in which -$\alpha$ and $\beta$ lie. - -{\bf 126}. Some very curious results are obtained when we extend -these processes of interpretation to functions of a {\sl quaternion} -$$q=w+\rho$$ -instead of functions of a mere {\sl vector} $\rho$. - -A scalar equation containing such a quaternion, along with -quaternion constants, gives, as in last section, the equation of a -surface, if we assign a definite value to $w$. Hence for successive -values of $w$, we have successive surfaces belonging to a system ; -and thus when $w$ is indeterminate the equation represents not a -{\sl surface}, as before, but a {\sl volume}, -in the sense that the vector of any -point within that volume satisfies the equation. - -Thus the equation -$$(Tq)^2=a^2$$ -or -$$w^2-\rho^2=a^2$$ -or -$$(TP)^2=a^2-w^2$$ -represents, for any assigned value of $w$, not greater than $a$, a sphere -whose radius is $\sqrt{a^2-w^2}$. Hence the equation is satisfied by the -vector of any point whatever in the {\sl volume} of a sphere of radius $a$, -whose centre is origin. - -Again, by the same kind of investigation, -$$(T (q-\beta))^2=a^2$$ -where $q=w+\rho$, is easily seen to represent the volume of a sphere -of radius $a$ described about the extremity of $\beta$ as centre. - -Also $S(q^2) = -a^2$ is the equation of infinite space less the space -contained in a sphere of radius $a$ about the origin. - -Similar consequences as to the interpretation of vector -equations in quaternions may be readily deduced by the reader. - -{\bf 127}. The following transformation is enuntiated without proof -by Hamilton ({\sl Lectures}, p. 587, and {\sl Elements}, p. 299). -$$r^{-1}(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}q^{-1}=U(rq+KrKq)$$ -To prove it, let -$$r^{-1}(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}q^{-1}=t$$ -then -$$Tt=1$$ -and therefore -$$Kt=t^{-1}$$ -But -$$(r^2q^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}=rtq$$ -or -$$r^2q^2=rtqrtq$$ -or -$$rq=tqrt$$ -Hence -$$KqKr=t^{-1}KrKqt^{-1}$$ -or -$$KrKq=tKqKrt$$ -Thus we have -$$U(rq\pm KrKq)=tU(qr\pm KqKr)t$$ -or, if we put -$$s=U(qr\pm KqKr)$$ -$$Ks=\pm tst$$ -Hence -$$sKs=(Ts)^2=1=\pm stst$$ -which, if we take the positive sign, requires -$$st=\pm 1$$ -or -$$t=\pm s^{-1}=\pm UKs$$ -which is the required transformation. - -[It is to be noticed that there are other results which might -have been arrived at by using the negative sign above ; some -involving an arbitrary unit-vector, others involving the imaginary -of ordinary algebra.] - -{\bf 128}. As a final example, we take a transformation of Hamilton's, -of great importance in the theory of surfaces of the second order. - -Transform the expression -$$(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2$$ -in which $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -are any three mutually rectangular vectors, into the form -$$\left(\frac{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}\right)^2$$ -which involves only two vector-constants, $\iota$, $\kappa$. - -[The student should remark here that $\iota$, $\kappa$, two undetermined -vectors, involve six disposable constants : and that $\alpha$, $\beta$, -$\gamma$, being a {\sl rectangular} system, involve also only six constants.] -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)\}^2 -&=& (\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)(\rho\iota+\kappa\rho)\;\;\;\;(\S\S 52,55)\\ -&=& (\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho^2+(\iota\rho\kappa\rho+\rho\kappa\rho\iota)\\ -&=& (\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho^2+2S.\iota\rho\kappa\rho\\ -&=& (\iota-\kappa)^2\rho^2+4S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho -\end{array} -$$ -Hence -$$ -(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2= -\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}\rho^2+ -4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -$$ -But -$$ -\alpha^{-2}(S\alpha\rho)^2+ -\beta^{-2}(S\beta\rho)^2+ -\gamma^{-2}(S\gamma\rho)^2= -\rho^2\;\;\;\;(\S\S 25,73). -$$ -Multiply by $\beta^2$ and subtract, we get -$$ -\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)(S\alpha\rho)^2- -\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)(S\gamma\rho)^2= -\left\{\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}-\beta^2\right\}\rho^2+ -4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -$$ - -The left side breaks up into two real factors if $\beta^2$ be intermediate -in value to $\alpha^2$ and $\gamma^2$: -and that the right side may do so the term -in $\rho^2$ must vanish. This condition gives -$$\beta^2=\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}$$ -and the identity becomes -$$ -S\left\{ -\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}+ -\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} -\right\} -\rho S\left\{ -\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}- -\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} -\right\}\rho= -4\frac{S\iota\rho S\kappa\rho}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -$$ -Hence we must have -$$ -\frac{2\iota}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}= -p\left\{ -\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}+ -\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} -\right\} -$$ -$$ -\frac{2\kappa}{\kappa^2-\iota^2}= -\frac{1}{p}\left\{ -\alpha\sqrt{\left(1-\frac{\beta^2}{\alpha^2}\right)}- -\gamma\sqrt{\left(\frac{\beta^2}{\gamma^2}-1\right)} -\right\} -$$ -where $\rho$ is an undetermined scalar. - -To determine $\rho$, substitute in the expression for $\beta^2$, and we find -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -4\beta^2=\frac{4(\iota-\kappa)^2}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -&=&\left(p-\frac{1}{p}\right)^2(\alpha^2-\beta^2)+ -\left(p+\frac{1}{p}\right)^2(\beta^2-\gamma^2)\\ -&=&\left(p^2+\frac{1}{p^2}\right)(\alpha^2-\gamma^2)- -2(\alpha^2+\gamma^2)+4\beta^2 -\end{array} -$$ - -Thus the transformation succeeds if -$$p^2+\frac{1}{p^2}=\frac{2(\alpha^2+\gamma^2)}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}$$ -which gives -$$p+\frac{1}{p}=\pm 2\sqrt{\frac{\alpha^2}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}}$$ -$$p-\frac{1}{p}=\pm 2\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2}{\alpha^2-\gamma^2}}$$ -Hence -$$ -\frac{4(\kappa^2-\iota^2)}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}= -\left(\frac{1}{p^2}-p^2\right)(\alpha^2-\gamma^2)= -\pm 4\sqrt{\alpha^2\gamma^2} -$$ -$$ -(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^{-1}=\pm T\alpha T\gamma$$ - -Again -$$ -p=\frac{T\alpha +T\gamma}{\sqrt{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}},\;\;\;\; -\frac{1}{p}=\frac{T\alpha -T\gamma}{\sqrt{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}} -$$ -and therefore -$$ -2\iota=\frac{T\alpha +T\gamma}{T\alpha T\gamma} -\left( -\sqrt{\frac{\beta^2-\alpha^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\alpha+ -\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2-\beta^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\gamma -\right) -$$ -$$ -2\kappa=\frac{T\alpha -T\gamma}{T\alpha T\gamma} -\left( -\sqrt{\frac{\beta^2-\alpha^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\alpha- -\sqrt{\frac{\gamma^2-\beta^2}{\gamma^2-\alpha^2}}U\gamma -\right) -$$ -Thus we have proved the possibility of the transformation, and -determined the transforming vectors $\iota$, $\kappa$. - -{\bf 129}. By differentiating the equation -$$ -(S\alpha\rho)^2+(S\beta\rho)^2+(S\gamma\rho)^2= -\left(\frac{T(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)}\right)^2 -$$ -we obtain, as will be seen in Chapter IV, the following, -$$ -S\alpha\rho S\alpha\rho^{'}+ -S\beta\rho S\beta\rho^{'}+ -S\gamma\rho S\gamma\rho^{'}= -\frac{S.(\iota\rho+\rho\kappa)(\kappa\rho^{'}+\rho^{'}\iota)} -{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -$$ -where $\rho$ also may be any vector whatever. - -This is another very important formula of transformation ; and -it will be a good exercise for the student to prove its truth by -processes analogous to those in last section. We may merely -observe, what indeed is obvious, that by putting $\rho^{'}=\rho$ it becomes -the formula of last section. And we see that we may write, with -the recent values of $\iota$ and $\kappa$ in terms of -$\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, the identity -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -\alpha S\alpha\rho+\beta S\beta\rho+\gamma S\gamma\rho -&=&\displaystyle -\frac{(\iota^2+\kappa^2)\rho+2V.\iota\rho\kappa}{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2}\\ -&&\\ -&=&\displaystyle -\frac{(\iota-\kappa)^2\rho+2(\iota S\kappa\rho+\kappa S\iota\rho)} -{(\kappa^2-\iota^2)^2} -\end{array} -$$ - -{\bf 130}. In various quaternion investigations, especially in such -as involve {\sl imaginary} intersections of curves and surfaces, the old -imaginary of algebra of course appears. But it is to be particularly -noticed that this expression is analogous to a scalar and not to a -vector, and that like real scalars it is commutative in -multiplication with all other factors. Thus it appears, by the same proof -as in algebra, that any quaternion expression which contains this -imaginary can always be broken up into the sum of two parts, one -real, the other multiplied by the first power of $\sqrt{-1}$. Such an -expression, viz. -$$q=q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}q^{''}$$ -where $q^{'}$ and $q^{''}$ are real quaternions, is called by Hamilton a -BIQUATERNION. [The student should be warned that the term -Biquaternion has since been employed by other writers in the -sense sometimes of a ``set'' of 8 elements, analogous to the -Quaternion 4 ; sometimes for an expression $q^{'} + \theta q^{''}$ -where $\theta$ is not -the algebraic imaginary. By them Hamilton s Biquaternion is -called simply a quaternion with non-real constituents.] Some -little care is requisite in the management of these expressions, but -there is no new difficulty. The points to be observed are: first, -that any biquaternion can be divided into a real and an imaginary -part, the latter being the product of $\sqrt{-1}$ by a real quaternion; -second, that this $\sqrt{-1}$ is commutative with all other quantities in -multiplication; third, that if two biquaternions be equal, as -$$q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''}=r^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;r^{''}$$ -we have, as in algebra, -$$q^{'}=r^{'},\;\;\;\;q^{''}=r^{''}$$ -so that an equation between biquaternions involves in general -{\sl eight} equations between scalars. Compare \S 80. - -{\bf 131}. We have obviously, since $\sqrt{-1}$ is a scalar, -$$S(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}$$ -$$V(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}$$ -Hence (\S 103) -$$\{T(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})\}^2$$ -$$ -=(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}+Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}) -(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''}-Vq^{'}-\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''}) -$$ -$$=(Sq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Sq^{''})^2-(Vq^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;Vq^{''})^2$$ -$$=(Tq^{'})^2-(Tq^{''})^2+2\sqrt{-1}\;S.q^{'}Kq^{''}$$ - -The only remark which need be made on such formulae is this, that -{\sl the tensor of a biquaternion may vanish while both of the component -quaternions are finite}. - -Thus, if -$$Tq^{'}=Tq^{''}$$ -and -$$S.q^{'}Kq^{''}=0$$ -the above formula gives -$$T(q^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{''})=0$$ -The condition -$$S.q^{'}Kq^{''}=0$$ -may be written -$$ -Kq^{''}=q^{'-1}\alpha,\;\;\;\textrm{ or }\;\;\; -q^{''}=-\alpha Kq^{'-1}=-\frac{\alpha q^{'}}{(Tq^{'})^2} -$$ -where $\alpha$ is any vector whatever. - -Hence -$$Tq^{'}=Tq^{''}=TKq^{''}=\frac{T\alpha}{Tq^{''}}$$ -and therefore -$$ -Tq^{'}(Uq^{'}-\sqrt{-1}\;U\alpha . Uq^{'})= -(1-\sqrt{-1}\;U\alpha)q^{'} -$$ -is the general form of a biquaternion whose tensor is zero. - -{\bf 132}. More generally we have, $q$, $r$, $q^{'}$, $r^{'}$ -being any four real and non-evanescent quaternions, -$$ -(q+\sqrt{-1}\;q^{'})(r+\sqrt{-1}\;r^{'})= -qr-q^{'}r^{'}+\sqrt{-1}\;(qr^{'}+q^{'}r) -$$ -That this product may vanish we must have -$$qr=q^{'}r^{'}$$ -and -$$qr^{'}=-q^{'}r$$ -Eliminating $r^{'}$ we have -$$qq^{'-1}qr=-q^{'}r$$ -which gives -$$(q^{'-1}q)^2=-1$$ -i.e. -$$q=q^{'}\alpha$$ -where $\alpha$ is some unit-vector. - -And the two equations now agree in giving -$$-r=\alpha r^{'}$$ -so that we have the biquaternion factors in the form -$$q^{'}(\alpha +\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\;-(\alpha-\sqrt{-1})r^{'}$$ -and their product is -$$-q^{'}(\alpha +\sqrt{-1})(\alpha -\sqrt{-1})r^{'}$$ -which, of course, vanishes. - -[A somewhat simpler investigation of the same proposition -may be obtained by writing the biquaternions as -$$ -q^{'}(q^{'-1}q+\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; -(rr^{'-1}+\sqrt{-1})r^{'} -$$ -or -$$ -q^{'}(q^{''}+\sqrt{-1})\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; -(r^{''}+\sqrt{-1})r^{'} -$$ -and showing that -$$q^{''}=-r^{''}=\alpha \;\;\;\textrm{ where }\;T\alpha=1]$$ - -From this it appears that if the product of two {\sl bivectors} -$$ -\rho+\sigma\sqrt{-1}\;\;\;\textrm{ and }\;\;\; -\rho^{'}+\sigma^{'}\sqrt{-1} -$$ -is zero, we must have -$$\sigma^{-1}\rho=-\rho^{'}\sigma^{'-1}=U\alpha$$ -where $\alpha$ may be any vector whatever. But this result is still more -easily obtained by means of a direct process. - -{\bf 133}. It may be well to observe here (as we intend to avail our -selves of them in the succeeding Chapters) that certain abbreviated -forms of expression may be used when they are not liable to confuse, -or lead to error. Thus we may write -$$T^2q\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(Tq)^2$$ -just as we write -$$\cos^2\theta\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(\cos\theta)^2$$ -although the true meanings of these expressions are -$$T(Tq)\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\;\cos(\cos\theta)$$ - -The former is justifiable, as $T(Tq) = Tq$, and therefore $T^2q$ is not -required to signify the second tensor (or tensor of the tensor) of $q$. -But the trigonometrical usage is defensible only on the score of -convenience, and is habitually violated by the employment of -$cos^{-1}x$ in its natural and proper sense. -Similarly we may write -$$S^2q\;\;\;\textrm{for}\;\;\;(Sq)^2,\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ -but it may be advisable not to use -$$Sq^2$$ -as the equivalent of either of those just written; inasmuch as it -might be confounded with the (generally) different quantity -$$S.q^2\;\;\;\textrm{or}\;\;\;S(q^2)$$ -although this is rarely written without the point or the brackets. - -The question of the use of points or brackets is one on which -no very definite rules can be laid down. A beginner ought to use -them freely, and he will soon learn by trial which of them are -absolutely necessary to prevent ambiguity. - -In the present work this course has been adopted:-- the -earlier examples in each part of the subject being treated with -a free use of points and brackets, while in the later examples -superfluous marks of the kind are gradually got rid of. - -It may be well to indicate some general principles which -regulate the omission of these marks. Thus in $S.\alpha\beta$ or -$V.\alpha\beta$ -the point is obviously unnecessary:-- because $S\alpha=0$, and -$V\alpha=\alpha$ -so that the $S$ would annihilate the term if it applied to $\alpha$ alone, -while in the same case the $V$ would be superfluous. But in $S.qr$ -and $V.qr$, the point (or an equivalent) is indispensable, for $Sq.r$, -and $Vq.r$ are usually quite different from the first written -quantities. In the case of $K$, and of $d$ (used for scalar differentiation), -the {\sl omission} of the point indicates that the operator acts -{\sl only} on the nearest factor:-- thus -$$Kqr=(Kq)r=Kq.r,\;\;\;dqr=(dq)r=dq.r$$ -Kqr = (Kq) r = Kq . r, dqr = (dq) r=dq.r; -while, if its action extend farther, we write -$$K.qr=K(qr),\;\;\;d.qr=d(qr)\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ - -In more complex cases we must be ruled by the general -principle of dropping nothing which is essential. Thus, for -instance -$$V(pK(dq)V(Vq.r))$$ -may be written without ambiguity as -$$V(pK(dq)V(Vq.r))$$ -but nothing more can be dropped without altering its value. - -Another peculiarity of notation, which will occasionally be -required, shows {\sl which portions} of a complex product are affected -by an operator. Thus we write -$$\nabla S\sigma\tau$$ -if $\nabla$ operates on $\sigma$ and also on $\tau$, but -$$\nabla_1S\sigma\tau_1$$ -if it operates on $\tau$ alone. See, in this connection, the last Example -at the end of Chap. IV. below. - -{\bf 134}. The beginner may expect to be at first a little puzzled -with this aspect of the notation; but, as he learns more of the -subject, he will soon see clearly the distinction between such an -expression as -$$S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma$$ -where we may omit at pleasure either the point or the first V -without altering the value, and the very different one -$$S\alpha\beta .V\beta\gamma$$ -which admits of no such changes, without alteration of its value. - -All these simplifications of notation are, in fact, merely examples -of the transformations of quaternion expressions to which part of -this Chapter has been devoted. Thus, to take a very simple ex -ample, we easily see that -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma -&=&SV\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma -=S.\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma -=S\alpha V.\beta V\beta\gamma -=-S\alpha V.(V\beta\gamma)\beta\\ -&=&S\alpha V.(V\gamma\beta)\beta -=S.\alpha V(\gamma\beta)\beta -=S.V(\gamma\beta)\beta\alpha -=SV\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha\\ -&=&S.\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha -=S.K(\beta\gamma)V\beta\alpha -=S.\beta\gamma KV\beta\alpha -=-S.\beta\gamma V\beta\alpha\\ -&=&S.V\gamma\beta V\beta\alpha,\textrm{\&c., \&c.} -\end{array} -$$ - -The above group does not nearly exhaust the list of even the simpler -ways of expressing the given quantity. We recommend it to the -careful study of the reader. He will find it advisable, at first, to -use stops and brackets pretty freely; but will gradually learn to -dispense with those which are not absolutely necessary to prevent -ambiguity. - -There is, however, one additional point of notation to which -the reader s attention should be most carefully directed. A very -simple instance will suffice. Take the expressions -$$ -\frac{\beta}{\gamma}.\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}\;\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\;\; -\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha} -$$ - -The first of these is -$$\beta\gamma^{-1}.\gamma\alpha^{-1}=\beta\alpha^{-1}$$ -and presents no difficulty. But the second, though at first sight -it closely resembles the first, is in general totally different in -value, being in fact equal to -$$\beta\gamma\alpha^{-1}\gamma^{-1}$$ - -For the denominator must be treated as {\sl one quaternion}. If, -then, we write -$$\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha}=q$$ -we have -$$\beta\gamma=q\gamma\alpha$$ -so that, as stated above, -$$q=\beta\gamma\alpha^{-1}\gamma^{-1}$$ -We see therefore that -$$ -\frac{\beta}{\gamma}.\frac{\gamma}{\alpha}= -\frac{\beta}{\alpha}= -\frac{\beta\gamma}{\alpha\gamma};\;\;\;\textrm{but {\sl not}}\;\;= -\frac{\beta\gamma}{\gamma\alpha} -$$ - -\section{Examples to Chapter 3} - -{\bf 1}. Investigate, by quaternions, the requisite formulae for -changing from any one set of coordinate axes to another ; and -derive from your general result, and also from special investiga -tions, the usual expressions for the following cases: - -\begin{itemize} -\item[(a)] Rectangular axes turned about z through any angle. - -\item[(b)] Rectangular axes turned into any new position by rota -tion about a line equally inclined to the three. - -\item[(c)] Rectangular turned to oblique, one of the new axes -lying in each of the former coordinate planes. -\end{itemize} - -{\bf 2}. Point out the distinction between -$$ -\left(\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha}\right)^2\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; -\frac{(\alpha+\beta)^2}{\alpha^2} -$$ -and find the value of their difference. - -If -$$ -T\beta/\alpha=1\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; -U\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha}=\left(\frac{\beta}{\alpha}\right)^{\frac{1}{2}} -$$ - -Show also that -$$ -\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\alpha-\beta}= -\frac{V\alpha\beta}{1+S\alpha\beta^{'}} -$$ -and -$$ -\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha+\beta}= --\frac{V\alpha\beta}{1-S\alpha\beta^{'}} -$$ -provided $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be unit-vectors. If these conditions are not -fulfilled, what are the true values ? - -{\bf 3}. Show that, whatever quaternion $r$ may be, the expression -$$\alpha r+r\beta$$ -in which $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are any two unit- vectors, is reducible to the -form -$$l(\alpha+\beta)+m(\alpha\beta-1)$$ -where $l$ and $m$ are scalars. - -{\bf 4}. If $Tp=T\alpha=T\beta=1$, and $S.\alpha\beta\rho=0$ -show by direct transformations that -$$S.U(\rho-\alpha)U(\rho-\beta)=\pm\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}(1-S\alpha\beta)}$$ -Interpret this theorem geometrically. - -{\bf 5}. If $S\alpha\beta=0$, $T\alpha=T\beta=1$, show that -$$ -(1+\alpha^{m})\beta= -2\cos\frac{m\pi}{4}\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}\beta= -2S\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}.\alpha^{\frac{m}{2}}\beta -$$ - -{\bf 6}. Put in its simplest form the equation -$$ -\rho S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= -aV.V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta+ -bV.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma+ -cV.V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha -$$ -and show that -$$a=S.\beta\gamma\rho,\;\;\;\textrm{\&c.}$$ - -{\bf 7}. Show that any quaternion may in general, in one way only, -be expressed as a homogeneous linear function of four given -quaternions. Point out the nature of the exceptional cases. Also -find the simplest form in which any quaternion may generally be -expressed in terms of two given quaternions. - -{\bf 8}. Prove the following theorems, and exhibit them as properties -of determinants : - -\begin{itemize} -\item[(a)] $S.(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha)= -2S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ -\item[(b)]$S.V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha= --(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2$ -\item[(c)]$S.V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha) -V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta)=-4(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2$ -\item[(d)]$S.V(V\alpha\beta V\beta\gamma)V(V\beta\gamma V\gamma\alpha) -V(V\gamma\alpha V\alpha\beta)=-(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^4$ -\item[(e)]$S.\delta\epsilon\zeta=-16(S.\alpha\beta\gamma)^4$\\ -where -$$\delta=V(V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma)V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha))$$ -$$\epsilon=V(V(\beta+\gamma)(\gamma+\alpha)V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta))$$ -$$\zeta=V(V(\gamma+\alpha)(\alpha+\beta)V(\alpha+\beta)(\beta+\gamma))$$ -\end{itemize} - -{\bf 9}. Prove the common formula for the product of two determinants -of the third order in the form -$$ -S.\alpha\beta\gamma S.\alpha_1\beta_1\gamma_1= -\left| -\begin{array}{ccc} -S\alpha\alpha_1 & S\beta\alpha_1 & S\gamma\alpha_1\\ -S\alpha\beta_1 & S\beta\beta_1 & S\gamma\beta_1\\ -S\alpha\gamma_1 & S\beta\gamma_1 & S\gamma\gamma_1 -\end{array} -\right| -$$ - -{\bf 10}. Show that, whatever be the eight vectors involved, -$$ -\left| -\begin{array}{cccc} -S\alpha\alpha_1 & S\alpha\beta_1 & S\alpha\gamma_1 & S\alpha\delta_1\\ -S\beta\alpha_1 & S\beta\beta_1 & S\beta\gamma_1 & S\beta\delta_1\\ -S\gamma\alpha_1 & S\gamma\beta_1 & S\gamma\gamma_1 & S\gamma\delta_1\\ -S\delta\alpha_1 & S\delta\beta_1 & S\delta\gamma_1 & S\delta\delta_1 -\end{array} -\right| -=S.\alpha\beta\gamma S. \beta_1\gamma_1\delta_1S\alpha_1(\delta-\delta)=0 -$$ - -If the single term $S\alpha\alpha_1$, be changed to $S\alpha_0\alpha_1$, -the value of the determinant is -$$S.\beta\gamma\delta S.\beta_1\gamma_1\delta_1 S\alpha_1(\alpha_0-\alpha)$$ - -State these as propositions in spherical trigonometry. - -Form the corresponding null determinant for any two groups -of five quaternions : and give its geometrical interpretation. - -{\bf 11}. If, in \S 102, $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be three mutually -perpendicular vectors, can anything be predicated as to $\alpha_1$, -$\beta_1$, $\gamma_1$? If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be rectangular -unit-vectors, what of $\alpha_1$, $\beta_1$, $\gamma_1$? - -{\bf 12}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$, $\alpha^{'}$, $\beta^{'}$, -$\gamma^{'}$ be two sets of rectangular unit-vectors, show that -$$ -S\alpha\alpha^{'}= -S\gamma\beta^{'}S\beta\gamma^{'}= -S\beta\beta^{'}S\gamma\gamma^{'}\;\;\;\textrm{\&c. \&c.} -$$ - -{\bf 13}. The lines bisecting pairs of opposite sides of a quadrilateral -(plane or gauche) are perpendicular to each other when the -diagonals of the quadrilateral are equal. - -{\bf 14}. Show that -\begin{itemize} -\item [(a)]$S.q^2=2S^2q-T^2q$ -\item [(b)]$S.q^3=S^3q-3SqT^2Vq$ -\item [(c)]$\alpha^2\beta^2\gamma^2+S^2.\alpha\beta\gamma= -V^2.\alpha\beta\gamma$ -\item [(d)]$S(V.\alpha\beta\gamma V.\beta\gamma\alpha V.\gamma\alpha\beta)= -4S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma S\gamma\alpha S.\alpha\beta\gamma$ -\item [(e)]$V.q^3=(2S^2q-T^2Vq)Vq$ -\item [(f)]$qUVq^{-1}=-Sq.UVq+TVq$ -\end{itemize} - -and interpret each as a formula in plane or spherical trigonometry. - -{\bf 15}. If $q$ be an undetermined quaternion, what loci are represented by -\begin{itemize} -\item[(a)]$(q\alpha^{-1})^2=-a^2$ -\item[(b)]$(q\alpha^{-1})^4=a^4$ -\item[(c)]$S.(q-\alpha)^2=a^2$ -\end{itemize} -where $a$ is any given scalar and $\alpha$ any given vector ? - -{\bf 16}. If $q$ be any quaternion, show that the equation -$$Q^2=q^2$$ -is satisfied, not alone by $Q = \pm q$, but also by -$$Q=\pm \sqrt{-1}(Sq.UVq-TVq)$$ - -\begin{flushright} -(Hamilton, {\sl Lectures}, p. 673.) -\end{flushright} - -{\bf 17}. Wherein consists the difference between the two equations -$$ -T^2\frac{\rho}{\alpha}=1\;\;\;\textrm{and}\;\;\; -\left(\frac{\rho}{\alpha}\right)^2=-1 -$$ - -What is the full interpretation of each, $\alpha$ being a given, and p an -undetermined, vector? - -{\bf 18}. Find the {\sl full} consequences of each of the following -groups of equations, as regards both the unknown vector $\rho$ and -the given vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$: -$$ -\begin{array}{crcrcr} - & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0 & & S\alpha\rho=0 & & S\alpha\rho=0\\ -(a) & & (b) & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0 & (c) & S.\alpha\beta\rho=0\\ - & S.\beta\gamma\rho=0 & & S\beta\rho=0 & & S.\alpha\beta\gamma\rho=0 -\end{array} -$$ - -{\bf 19}. From \S\S 74, 110, show that, if $\epsilon$ -be any unit-vector, and $m$ any scalar, -$$\epsilon^{m}=\cos\frac{m\pi}{2}+\epsilon\sin\frac{m\pi}{2}$$ -Hence show that if $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be radii drawn to the corners of a triangle on the unit-sphere, -whose spherical excess is $m$ right angles, -$$ -\frac{\alpha+\beta}{\beta+\gamma}. -\frac{\gamma+\alpha}{\alpha+\beta}. -\frac{\beta+\gamma}{\gamma+\alpha}= -\alpha^m -$$ -Also that, if $A$, $B$, $C$ be the angles of the triangle, we have -$$ -\gamma^{\frac{2C}{\pi}} -\beta^{\frac{2B}{\pi}} -\alpha^{\frac{2A}{\pi}} -=-1 -$$ - -{\bf 20}. Show that for any three vectors $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ we have -$$ -(U\alpha\beta)^2+(U\beta\gamma)^2+(U\alpha\gamma)^2+(U.\alpha\beta\gamma)^2+ -4U\alpha\gamma .SU\alpha\beta SU\beta\gamma=-2 -$$ - -\begin{flushright} -(Hamilton, {\sl Elements}, p. 388.) -\end{flushright} - -{\bf 21}. If $a_1$, $a_2$, $a_3$, $x$ be any four scalars, -and $\rho_1$, $\rho_2$, $\rho_3$ any three vectors, show that -$$ -(S.\rho_1\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ -(\sum.a_1V\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ -x^2(\sum V\rho_1\rho_2)^2- -$$ -$$ -x^2(\sum.a_1(\rho_2-\rho_3))^2 -+2\prod(x^2+S\rho_1\rho_2+a_1a_2) -$$ -$$ -=2\prod(x^2+\rho^2)+ -2\prod a^2+ -$$ -$$ -\sum\{(x^2+a_1^2+\rho_1^2)((V\rho_2\rho_3)^2+ -2a_2a_3(x^2+S\rho_2\rho_3)-x^2(\rho_2-\rho_3)^2)\} -$$ -where $\displaystyle \prod a^2=a_1^2a_2^2a_3^2$ - -Verify this formula by a simple process in the particular case -$$a_1=a_2=a_3=x=0$$ - -\begin{flushright} -({\sl Ibid}) -\end{flushright} - -{\bf 22}. Eliminate $p$ from the equations -$$V.\beta\rho\alpha\rho=0,\;\;\;S\gamma\rho=0$$ -and state the problem and its solution in a geometrical form. - -{\bf 23}. If $p$, $q$, $r$, $s$ be four versors, such that -$$qp=-sr=\alpha$$ -$$rq=-ps=\beta$$ -where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are unit-vectors; show that -$$S(V.VsVqV.VrVp)=0$$ -Interpret this as a property of a spherical quadrilateral. - -{\bf 24}. Show that, if $pq$, $rs$, $pr$, and $qs$ be vectors, we have -$$S(V.VpVsV.VqVr)=0$$ - -{\bf 25}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ be unit-vectors, -$$ -V\beta\gamma S.\alpha\beta\gamma= --\alpha(1-S^2\beta\gamma)- -\beta(S\alpha\gamma S\beta r + S\alpha\beta)- -\gamma(S\alpha\beta S\beta\gamma+S\alpha\gamma) -$$ - -{\bf 26}. If $i$, $j$, $k$, $i^{'}$, $j^{'}$, $k^{'}$, -be two sets of rectangular unit-vectors, show that -$$ -\begin{array}{rcl} -S.Vii^{'}Vjj^{'}Vkk^{'}&=&(Sij^{'})^2-(Sji^{'})^2\\ - &=&(Sjk^{'})^2-(Skj^{'})^2=\textrm{\&c.} -\end{array} -$$ -and find the values of the vector of the same product. - -{\bf 27}. If $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ -be a rectangular unit-vector system, show that, -whatever be $\lambda$, $\mu$, $\nu$ -$$\lambda S^2i\alpha +\mu S^2j\gamma +\nu S^2k\beta$$ -$$\lambda S^2k\gamma +\mu S^2i\beta +\nu S^2j\alpha$$ -and -$$\lambda S^2j\beta +\mu S^2k\alpha +\nu S^2i\gamma$$ -are coplanar vectors. What is the connection between this and -the result of the preceding example ? - -\vfill -\newpage -\chapter{Axiom Algebra Code} - -\section{package QUATCT2 QuaternionCategoryFunctions2} -<>= -)abbrev package QUATCT2 QuaternionCategoryFunctions2 -++ Author: Robert S. Sutor -++ Date Created: 23 May 1990 -++ Change History: -++ 23 May 1990 -++ Basic Operations: map -++ Related Constructors: QuaternionCategory, Quaternion -++ Also See: -++ AMS Classifications: 11R52 -++ Keywords: quaternions, division ring, map -++ Description: -++ \spadtype{QuaternionCategoryFunctions2} implements functions between -++ two quaternion domains. The function \spadfun{map} is used by -++ the system interpreter to coerce between quaternion types. - -QuaternionCategoryFunctions2(QR,R,QS,S) : Exports == - Implementation where - R : CommutativeRing - S : CommutativeRing - QR : QuaternionCategory R - QS : QuaternionCategory S - Exports == with - map: (R -> S, QR) -> QS - ++ map(f,u) maps f onto the component parts of the quaternion - ++ u. - Implementation == add - map(fn : R -> S, u : QR): QS == - quatern(fn real u, fn imagI u, fn imagJ u, fn imagK u)$QS - -@ -\chapter{Further Notes} -\section{Axiom Examples} -The basic operation for creating quaternions is {\bf quatern}. -This is a quaternion over the rational numbers. -\spadcommand{q:=quatern(2/11,-8,3/4,1)} -$$ -{2 \over {11}} -{8 \ i}+{{3 \over 4} \ j}+k -$$ -\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} - -This is a quaternion over the integers. -\spadcommand{r:=quatern(1,2,3,4)} -$$ -1+{2 \ i}+{3 \ j}+{4 \ k} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Quaternion Integer} - -We can also construct quaternions with complex components. -First we construct a complex number. -\spadcommand{b:=complex(3,4)} -$$ -3+{4 \ i} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Complex Integer} -and then we use it as a component in a quaternion. -\spadcommand{s:=quatern(3,1/7,b,2)} -$$ -3+{{1 \over 7} \ i}+{{\left( 3+{4 \ i} \right)}\ j}+{2 \ k} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Quaternion Complex Fraction Integer} -Notice that the $i$ component of the complex number has no -relation to the $i$ component of the quaternion even though -they use the same symbol by convention. - -The four parts of a quaternion are the real part, the $i$ imaginary -part, the $j$ imaginary part, and the $k$ imaginary part. The -{\bf real} function returns the real part. -\spadcommand{real q} -$$ -2 \over {11} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} - -The {\bf imagI} function returns the $i$ imaginary part. -\spadcommand{imagI q} -$$ --8 -$$ -\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} - -The {\bf imagJ} function returns the $j$ imaginary part. -\spadcommand{imagJ q} -$$ -3 \over 4 -$$ -\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} - -The {\bf imagK} function returns the $k$ imaginary part. -\spadcommand{imagK q} -$$ -1 -$$ -\returnType{Type: Fraction Integer} - -Quaternions satisfy a very fundamental relationship between the parts, -namely that -$$i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1$$. This is similar to the requirement -in complex numbers of the form $a+bi$ that $i^2 = -1$. - -The set of quaternions is denoted by $\mathbb{H}$, whereas the integers -are denoted by $\mathbb{Z}$ and the complex numbers by $\mathbb{C}$. - -Quaternions are not commutative which means that in general -$$AB \ne BA$$ -for any two quaternions, A and B. So, for instance, -\spadcommand{q*r} -$$ -{{437} \over {44}} -{{{84} \over {11}} \ i}+{{{1553} \over {44}} \ j} --{{{523} \over {22}} \ k} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} -\spadcommand{r*q} -$$ -{{437} \over {44}} -{{{84} \over {11}} \ i} -{{{1439} \over {44}} \ -j}+{{{599} \over {22}} \ k} -$$ -\returnType{Type: Quaternion Fraction Integer} -and these are clearly not equal. - -Complex $2\times2$ matrices form an alternate, equivalent -representation of quaternions. These matrices have the form: -$$ -\left[ -\begin{array}{cc} -u & v \\ --\overline{v} & \overline{u} -\end{array} -\right] -$$ -= -$$ -\left[ -\begin{array}{cc} -a+bi & c+di \\ --c+di & a-bi -\end{array} -\right] -$$ -where $u$ and $v$ are complex, $\overline{u}$ is complex conjugate -of $u$, $\overline{z}$ is the complex conjugate of $z$, and a,b,c, -and d are real. - -Within the quaternion each component operator represents a basis -element in $\mathbb{R}^4$ thus: -$$ -1 = -\left[ -\begin{array}{cccc} -1 & 0 & 0 & 0\\ -0 & 1 & 0 & 1\\ -0 & 0 & 1 & 0\\ -0 & 0 & 0 & 1 -\end{array} -\right] -$$ - -$$ -i = -\left[ -\begin{array}{cccc} -0 & 1 & 0 & 0\\ --1 & 0 & 0 & 1\\ -0 & 0 & 0 & 1\\ -0 & 0 & -1 & 0 -\end{array} -\right] -$$ - - -\chapter{Licenses} -<>= ---A Primer of Quaternions by Arthur S. 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