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Vector Calculus. Overview. Many of the situations analyzed in classical mechanics involve quantities that are functions of vectors. We will look at the special techniques used in such cases. The simplest is a vector quantity that depends on a scalar quantity, such as the dependence of position (or velocity, or acceleration) on time.
Course Content. •Introduction and revision of elementary concepts, scalar product, vector product. •Triple products, multiple products, applications to geometry. •Differentiation and integration of vector functions of a single variable. •Curvilinear coordinate systems. Line, surface and volume integrals. •Vector operators.
A vector is a geometrical object with magnitude and direction independent of any particular coordinate system. A representation in terms of components or unit vectors may be important for calculation and application, but is not intrinsic to the concept of vector.
Vector Calculus and Multiple Integrals. Rob Fender, HT 2018. COURSE SYNOPSIS, RECOMMENDED BOOKS. Course syllabus (on which exams are based): Double integrals and their evaluation by repeated integration in Cartesian, plane polar and other specified coordinate systems. Jacobians.
Definition 1.1. The magnitude, or length, or norm, of the vector ~u is the scalar defined as 2 u:= |~u| := q u2 1 +u2 2 +u2 3. The direction of a (non-zero) vector ~uis the unit vector defined as uˆ := ~u |~u|. Note that often the magnitude of a vector ~u is written as k~uk (e.g. in your Linear Algebra lecture notes).
The idea behind the vector calculus is to utilize vectors and their functions for analytical calculations, i.e. calculations without geometrical considerations. It is possible if any vector is completely represented it terms of numbers, not directed line
8 Components of Vectors{numerical addition of vectors Any vector on the x-yplane can be reduced to the sum of two vectors, one along the xaxis, and the other along the yaxis.
