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Vector calculus


By:
Arip Nurahman
Department of Physics
Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Indonesia University of Education

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Vector Calculus


From Wikipedia

Topics in calculus
Fundamental theorem
Limits of functions
Continuity
Vector calculus
Matrix calculus
Mean value theorem
Differentiation
Product rule
Quotient rule
Chain rule
Change of variables
Implicit differentiation
Taylor's theorem
Related rates
List of differentiation identities
Integration
Lists of integrals
Improper integrals
Integration by:
parts, disks, cylindrical
shells, substitution,
trigonometric substitution,
partial fractions, changing order


Vector calculus (also called vector analysis) is a field of mathematics concerned with multivariable real analysis of vectors in an inner product space of two or more dimensions (some results — those that involve the cross product — can only be applied to three dimensions). It consists of a suite of formulae and problem solving techniques very useful for engineering and physics. Vector analysis has its origin in quaternion analysis, and was formulated by the American engineer and scientist J. Willard Gibbs and the British engineer Oliver Heaviside.

Vector calculus is concerned with scalar fields, which associate a scalar to every point in space, and vector fields, which associate a vector to every point in space. For example, the temperature of a swimming pool is a scalar field: to each point we associate a scalar value of temperature. The water flow in the same pool is a vector field: to each point we associate a velocity vector.

Vector operations


Vector calculus studies various differential operators defined on scalar or vector fields, which are typically expressed in terms of the del operator
(\nabla). The four most important operations in vector calculus are:
Operation Notation Description Domain/Range
Gradient \operatorname{grad}(f) = \nabla f Measures the rate and direction of change in a scalar field. Maps scalar fields to vector fields.
Curl \operatorname{curl}(\mathbf{F}) = \nabla \times \mathbf{F} Measures the tendency to rotate about a point in a vector field. Maps vector fields to vector fields.
Divergence \operatorname{div}(\mathbf{F}) = \nabla \cdot \mathbf{F} Measures the magnitude of a source or sink at a given point in a vector field. Maps vector fields to scalar fields.
Laplacian \Delta f = \nabla^2 f = \nabla \cdot \nabla f A composition of the divergence and gradient operations. Maps scalar fields to scalar fields.
A quantity called the Jacobian is useful for studying functions when both the domain and range of the function are multivariable, such as a change of variables during integration.

Theorems

Likewise, there are several important theorems related to these operators which generalize the fundamental theorem of calculus to higher dimensions:
Theorem Statement Description
Gradient theorem \varphi\left(\mathbf{q}\right)-\varphi\left(\mathbf{p}\right) = \int_L \nabla\varphi\cdot d\mathbf{r}. The line integral through a gradient (vector) field equals the difference in its scalar field at the endpoints of the curve.
Green's theorem \int_{C} L\, dx + M\, dy = \iint_{D} \left(\frac{\partial M}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial L}{\partial y}\right)\, dA The integral of the scalar curl of a vector field over some region in the plane equals the line integral of the vector field over the curve bounding the region.
Stokes' theorem \int_{\Sigma} \nabla \times \mathbf{F} \cdot d\mathbf{\Sigma} = \oint_{\partial\Sigma} \mathbf{F} \cdot d \mathbf{r}, The integral of the curl of a vector field over a surface equals the line integral of the vector field over the curve bounding the surface.
Divergence theorem \iiint\limits_V\left(\nabla\cdot\mathbf{F}\right)dV=\iint\limits_{\part V}\mathbf{F}\cdot d\mathbf{S}, The integral of the divergence of a vector field over some solid equals the integral of the flux through the surface bounding the solid.
The use of vector calculus may require the handedness of the coordinate system to be taken into account (see cross product and handedness for more detail). Most of the analytic results are easily understood, in a more general form, using the machinery of differential geometry, of which vector calculus forms a subset.

See also


References

  • Michael J. Crowe (1994). A History of Vector Analysis : The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System. Dover Publications; Reprint edition. ISBN 0-486-67910-1. (Summary)
  • H. M. Schey (2005). Div Grad Curl and all that: An informal text on vector calculus. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-92516-1.
  • J.E. Marsden (1976). Vecor Calculus. W. H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 0-7167-o462-5.

External links

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