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Vector Calculus – Div, grad and curl in suffix notation
— 9. Grad, Div and Curl revisited in suffix notation — After introducing suffix notation and noting its computing and synthesizing power it is now time to use its power for the differential operators in vector calculus. From now on … Continue reading
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Tagged curl, div, grad, math, mathematics, Physics, suffix-notation, vector-calculus
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Vector Calculus – Exercises V
Exercise 18 Write in suffix notation. As always we will write the equation in suffix notation for the coordinate: Exercise 19 Write in vector notation. Exercise 20 Show that using suffix notation. Exercise 21 Let and be matrices. Show that … Continue reading
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Vector Calculus – The Kronecker delta and the alternating tensor
— 7. Kronecker delta — In vector calculus it is important to define the so-called Kronecker delta, which we can think as being identical to the identity matrix. Definition 11 The Kronecker delta is represented by the symbol and by … Continue reading
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Tagged alternating-tensor, kronecker-delta, math, mathematics, Physics
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Vector Calculus – Suffix notation
— 6. Suffix notation — The purpose of this section is to introduce suffix notation and get familiar with it by solving exercises. Suffix notation is a very powerful and agile way of doing calculations when dealing with vectors (and … Continue reading
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Vector Calculus – Exercises IV
Exercise 14 Given the scalar field determine and the Laplacian . For the gradient it is Exercise 15 Given the scalar field determine and the Laplacian . And for the Laplacian it is Exercise 16 Find the divergence and the … Continue reading
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Tagged lagrangian, laplacian, line-integral, math, mathematics, Physics, potential-function, vector-calculus
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Gradient, Divergence and Curl II
— 5.4. Divergence — The divergence operation is one of the ways of differentiating a vector field. Let us consider a volume of a rectangular box centered on the point . The lengths of the sides are , and . … Continue reading
Vector Calculus – Exercises III
Exercise 9 Find the gradient of the scalar field and evaluate it at . Hence find the directional derivative of at this point in the direction of the vector . For the gradient it is Hence at point the gradient … Continue reading
Gradient, Divergence and Curl I
— 5. Gradient, Divergence and Curl — — 5.1. Small increments to functions — We saw in previous sections that sometimes we can consider small increments to functions. In this section we will generalize the procedure to functions of more … Continue reading
Vector Calculus – Exercises II
Exercise 5 Evaluate the surface integral of over the surface of defined by with , , with the normal directed in the positive direction. Since the surface is the normal is . Hence Thus the integral is Exercise 6 Find … Continue reading
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Vector Calculus – Volume Integrals
— 4.5. Volume integrals — An object of volume with constant mass density has a mass of . If the mass density instead is a function of position, we need to compute the mass of the object in a more … Continue reading