Vectors and Covectors

Joseph Mellor
16 min readDec 26, 2022

Covectors are dual to vectors, and they’re fundamental to understand differential forms and tensors.

This article is stop 14 on The Road to Quantum Mechanics.

Up to this point in the Lagrangian arc, we’ve been looking at the paths objects take through space. These paths are functions of time that output positions in space. As we continue through this series, we’ll want to look at functions of space and time. More specifically, we’ll want to take derivatives and integrals of these…

Joseph Mellor

BS in Physics, Math, and CS with a minor in High-Performance Computing. You can find all my articles at https://josephmellor.xyz/articles/.