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In physics when vectors are used by fixing a coordinate system and employing components, it is very important to understand how the components will change if the coordinate system is changed. A change of coordinates is best expressed in terms of transformations of vectors. The simplest such transformations are the linear ones.
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Smith, L. (1978). Linear transformations. In: Linear Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9995-1_8
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