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    In physics and mathematics, a pseudovector (or axial vector) is a quantity that behaves like a vector in many situations, but its direction does not conform...
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  • In high energy physics, a pseudovector meson or axial vector meson is a meson with total spin 1 and even parity (+) (usually noted as J P = 1+ ). Compare...
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  • not. A pseudoscalar, when multiplied by an ordinary vector, becomes a pseudovector (or axial vector); a similar construction creates the pseudotensor. A...
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  • A pseudovector boson is a vector boson that has even parity, whereas "regular" vector bosons have odd parity. There are no fundamental pseudovector bosons...
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    lowercase Greek letter omega), also known as angular frequency vector, is a pseudovector representation of how the angular position or orientation of an object...
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    mesons contrast with the pseudovector mesons, which also have a total spin 1 but instead have even parity. The vector and pseudovector mesons are also dissimilar...
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  • decreases counterclockwise. In three dimensions, angular acceleration is a pseudovector. For rigid bodies, angular acceleration must be caused by a net external...
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  • over a line. In more advanced treatments, one further distinguishes pseudovector fields and pseudoscalar fields, which are identical to vector fields...
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  • In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase...
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  • Thumbnail for Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector
    In physics, the Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector is an operator defined from the momentum and angular momentum, used in the quantum-relativistic description...
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    transform in a similar way under changes of the coordinate system include pseudovectors and tensors. The vector concept, as it is known today, is the result...
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  • In continuum mechanics, vorticity is a pseudovector (or axial vector) field that describes the local spinning motion of a continuum near some point (the...
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  • meaning.) In mathematics, a rotating body is commonly represented by a pseudovector along the axis of rotation. The length of the vector gives the speed...
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  • cross product transforms as a pseudovector under parity transformations and so is properly described as a pseudovector. The dot product of two vectors...
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    quantity of magnetic moment per unit volume. It is represented by a pseudovector M. Magnetization can be compared to electric polarization, which is the...
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    angular momentum for a point particle is classically represented as a pseudovector r × p, the cross product of the particle's position vector r (relative...
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    W_{\mu }W^{\mu }} where W μ {\textstyle W_{\mu }} is the Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector; they serve as labels for the representations of the group. The Poincaré...
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    around which it is being determined. In three dimensions, the torque is a pseudovector; for point particles, it is given by the cross product of the displacement...
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    momentum is the cross product of position x with momentum p to obtain a pseudovector x × p, or alternatively as the exterior product to obtain a second order...
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    product of tangent vectors (as described in the text above), it is a pseudovector. When applying a transform to a surface it is often useful to derive...
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  • proper rotation followed by reflection. This is a generalization of a pseudovector. To evaluate a tensor or pseudotensor sign, it has to be contracted with...
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    waves). Angular frequency (or angular speed) is the magnitude of the pseudovector quantity angular velocity. Angular frequency can be obtained multiplying...
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    Although the magnetic field, B {\displaystyle \mathbf {B} } , is a pseudovector (also called axial vector), the vector potential, A {\displaystyle \mathbf...
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    vector to each point of space, called a vector field (more precisely, a pseudovector field). In electromagnetics, the term magnetic field is used for two...
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    another. Note the cross product of two vectors is a pseudovector, while the cross product of a pseudovector with a vector is another vector. Other identities...
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    conjecture Pauli–Jordan function Pauli–Jung conjecture Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector Pauli–Villars regularization Pauli–Zeldovich cancellation Fierz–Pauli–Kofink...
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  • acceleration ωa Change in angular velocity per unit time rad/s2 T−2 pseudovector Angular momentum L Measure of the extent and direction an object rotates...
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    the electric field, E, a vector field, and the magnetic field, B, a pseudovector field, each generally having a time and location dependence. The sources...
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    Due to the dependence on handedness, the cross product is said to be a pseudovector. In connection with the cross product, the exterior product of vectors...
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    bodies within a fluid flow due to vortices in the fluid Vorticity – Pseudovector field describing the local rotation of a continuum near some point Whirly...
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