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New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Second Edition) Fundamental Theories of Physics An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application Editor: ALWYN VAN DER MERWE, University of Denver, U.S.A. Editoral Advisory Board: LAWRENCE P. HORWITZ, Tel-Aviv University, Israel BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON, University of Cambridge, U.K. CLIVE KILMISTER, University of London, U.K. PEKKA J. LAHTI, University of Turku, Finland GÜNTER LUDWIG, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany NATHAN ROSEN, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel ASHER PERES, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel EDUARD PRUGOVECKI, University of Toronto, Canada MENDEL SACHS, State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A. ABDUS SALAM, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy HANS-JÜRGEN TREDER, Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany Volume 99 New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Second Edition) by David Hestenes Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW eBook ISBN: 0-306-47122-1 Print ISBN: 0-7923-5514-8 ©2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Print ©1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Kluwer Online at: and Kluwers eBookstore at: Table of Contents Preface ix Chapter 1: Origins of Geometric Algebra 1 1-1. Geometry as Physics 1 1-