Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
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ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 16 - Review - Exercises - Page 1149: 19

Answer

There is no vector field $G$.

Work Step by Step

Use definition of div $F=\nabla \cdot F$ Consider $F=ai+bj+ck$ That is, div $F=\dfrac{\partial a}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial b}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial c}{\partial z}$ The div (curl G) will be zero when there exists a vector field $G$ for all values of $x,y$ and $z$. Here, we have curl$G=2x i+3y z j-xz^2 k$ Thus, div (curl G)$=\dfrac{\partial (2x)}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial (3yz)}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial (-xz^2)}{\partial z}=-2+3z-2xz$ We can see that div (curl G) is not zero, so there is no such vector field $G$. Hence, it has been proved.
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