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1 Saturday Sept 19th: Vector Calculus Vector derivatives of a scalar field: gradient, directional derivative, Laplacian Vector derivatives of a vector field: divergence, curl

2 Scalar fields unit vectors e.g. temperature oxygen content

3 e.g. surface pressure = P(longitude, latitude)

4 Differentiating a scalar: directional derivative, gradient gradient directional derivative

5 Pressure gradient

6 Pressure gradient force

7

8 Examples

9 A vector differential operator “Del”, or “Nabla”,

10 The Laplacian

11 2,3 dimensional PDEs Laplace’s eq’n Diffusion eq’n Wave eq’n

12 Vector fields

13 Differentiating a vector field examples

14 Divergence of a vector field

15 Modeling rain

16 Curl

17 Example: river flow

18 Diffusion (friction) Concentration of velocity diffuses away

19 Example: river flow gravity

20 Example: river flow

21 curl

22 Identities of vector calculus


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