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Scientific Investigations Report 2005–5045: Equation 3

The aligning angles, αk, βk, and γk (fig. 4), are to be calculated from the spin data. (Note that the orthogonality matrix in the following equation is inverted.)

 

[

H1
H2
H3

]

k

=

[

1 0 0
cos α sin α 0
cos γ cos β √ (1 − cos2 β − cos2 γ)

]

k

-1

[

F1
F2
F3

]

k

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