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Visualizing Rotations and Composition of Rotations with Rodrigues' Vector
The purpose of this paper is to show that the mathematical treatment of three
dimensional rotations can be simplified, and its geometrical understanding
improved, by using the Rodrigues' vector representation. We present a novel
geometrical interpretation of the Rodrigues' vector. Based on this
interpretation and simple geometrical considerations, we derive Euler
Rodrigues' formula, Cayley's rotation formula, and the composition law for
finite rotations. The level of this discussion should be suitable for
undergraduate physics or engineering courses where rotations are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Assumptions Underlying Bell's Inequalities
There are several versions of Bell's inequalities, proved in different
contexts, using different sets of assumptions. The discussions of their
experimental violation often disregard some required assumptions and use loose
formulations of others. The issue, to judge from recent publications, continues
to cause misunderstandings. We present a very simple but general proof of
Bell's inequalities, identifying explicitly the complete set of assumptions
required.Comment: 14 pages. This preprint includes an appendix and some comments not
included in the journal version (mainly in section 6), due to length
limitations. Comments are welcome