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2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
A Mathematical Type for Physical Variables
verfasst von : Joseph B. Collins
Erschienen in: Intelligent Computer Mathematics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In identifying the requirements of a markup language for describing the mathematical semantics of physics-based models, we pose the question: “Is there a mathematical type for physical variables?” While this question has no a priori answer, since physics is fundamentally empirical, it appears that a large body of physics may be described with a single mathematical type. Briefly stated, that type is formed as the mathematical product of a physical unit, such as
meter
or
second
, and an element of a Clifford algebra. We discuss some of the properties of this mathematical type and its use in documentation of physics-based models.