1A50.60 - Dirac Strings

Code Number:
1A50.60
Demo Title:
Dirac Strings
References:
  • Oscar Bolina, "Finite Rotations", TPT, Vol. 36, # 8, Nov. 1998, p. 496.
  • R. W. Hartung, "Pauli Principle in Euclidean Geometry", AJP, Vol. 47, # 10, Oct. 1979, p. 900. 
  • Edgar Rieflin, "Some Mechanisms Related to Dirac's Strings", AJP, Vol. 47, # 4, April, 1979, p. 379. 
  • Vicki Cobb and Kathy Darling, "Out of Order", Bet You Can't - Science Impossibilities To Fool You, p. 69.
  • Dirac's String Trick, Mathematics and Knots, Edition Limitee 1996.
  • Ronald Brown, "What Should Be the Output of Mathematical Education?", 
  • Dirac String Trick, Physics Learning Laboratories, Lecture Demonstration Laboratory, 7B35.30, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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