Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Sirkka-Liisa Eriksson

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Periods 3 3 - 4

Requirements

Written examination

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

Introduction to geometric algebras, analysis and their applications.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Introduction to geometric or Clifford algebras and their basic elements scalars, vectors, bivectors and multivectors
2.	Exterior product, contraction and geometric product and their calculation rules.
3.	Calculation of vector derivatives and integrals using geometric algebras
4.	Cauchy theorem in higher dimensions. Dirac and Maxwell equations

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Summary of lectures	An Introduction to geometric algebras	Janne Pesonen					English

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1

Last modified	03.06.2009
Modifier	Sirkka-Liisa Eriksson