Chirality Through Classical Physics
Popular Physics
2020-06-17 v1 Physics Education
Abstract
Chirality, or handedness, is a topic that is common in biology and chemistry, yet is rarely discussed in physics courses. We provide a way of introducing the topic in classical physics, and demonstrate the merits of its inclusion - such as a simple way to visually introduce the concept of symmetries in physical law - along with giving some simple proofs using only basic matrix operations, thereby avoiding the full formalism of the three-dimensional point group.
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@article{arxiv.2004.08236,
title = {Chirality Through Classical Physics},
author = {Chris L. Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08236},
year = {2020}
}
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9 pages, 8 figures