What can the answer be? 3. Reciprocal basis in two dimensions and other nice things

Balakrishnan, V. (1997) What can the answer be? 3. Reciprocal basis in two dimensions and other nice things Resonance - Journal of Science Education, 2 (5). pp. 8-14. ISSN 0971-8044

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Abstract

In Part 2 of this series, we saw how dual vectors arose very naturally even in elementary vector analysis. At the end of that article, I stated that dual vectors and the reciprocal basis were very far-reaching concepts. They appear in many different contexts, some of which will be described in the sequel. In this part, we begin with a situation that might appear to be simpler than the case worked out in part 2-but we are in for a surprise!

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