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Grade 6Thermal Physics

With example express gradient, divergence and curl in both cylindrical, spherical and cartesian coordnates

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5 Years agoGrade 6
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5 Years ago
divergence "correction" must be applied, which arises from the divergence of the unit vector fields. ... The reason that the divergence expression is not as simple as it is in Cartesian coordinates is that one of the unit vector fields is not divergenceless (or solenoidal).