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Published in Štefan Višňovský, Optics in Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures, 2018

Štefan Višňovský

and the magnetization as a pseudovector () M′k=det[akr]akrMr,

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Published in Liquid Crystals, 2023

Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Nonetheless, as experiments clearly show, a net torque – a pseudovector – exists. The question then becomes, can one construct a pseudovector from the relevant quantities in the problem? We consider the simpler problem of a thin rigid plate, with normals and on a frictionless axle, indicated by the dashed line in Figure 2(c), in a uniform wind with mass current density , and ask, can one construct a pseudovector from the quantities at hand? Although these are only the wind current density and, since the two sides of the plane are indistinguishable, the dyad of normals , one can nonetheless construct a pseudovector, giving the torque