Quaternions and Rotation Sequences:
A Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace and Virtual Reality
J. B. Kuipers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Figures
	About This Book
	Acknowledgements
1	Historical Matters	3
2	Algebraic Preliminaries	13
3	Rotations in 3-space	45
4	Rotation Sequences in R[superscript 3]	77
5	Quaternion Algebra	103
6	Quaternion Geometry	141
7	Algorithm Summary	155
8	Quaternion Factors	177
9	More Quaternion Applications	205
10	Spherical Trigonometry	235
11	Quaternion Calculus for Kinematics and Dynamics	257
12	Rotations in Phase Space	277
13	A Quaternion Process	303
14	Computer Graphics	333
	Further Reading and References	365
	Index	367

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