Chapter 03. Basic Notation

This chapter introduces a few basic conventions for vectors, matrices, and complex variables. If the reader finds that he or she is not familiar with the notation in this and the following chapters of Part I, a dense but fairly complete synopsis of the notation we use is presented in detail in Appendix A. For readers who are conversant with the conventions of 3D vector notation, matrices, and complex variables, this chapter and Appendix A should be elementary and can be skipped. Nevertheless, for anyone who might benefit from a quick summary, or who might be accustomed to notational conventions substantially different from those of the author, the material found here will be useful. In particular, the explanations of ...

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