Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

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

Chapter 16 - Section 16.5 - Curl and Divergence - 16.5 Exercise - Page 1110: 25

Answer

$div (fF)=f[div F]+F \cdot \nabla f$

Work Step by Step

Show that $div (fF)=f[div F]+[F] \cdot [\nabla f]$ Consider $F=ai+b j+ck$ $div F=\dfrac{\partial a}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial b}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial c}{\partial z}$ Suppose, we have $F=F_1i+F_2j+F_3z$ Now, $div (fF)=\nabla \cdot (fF_1i+fF_2j+fF_3k)$ or, $=\dfrac{\partial [fF_1]}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial [fF_2]}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial [fF_3]}{\partial x}$ $div (fF)=f [\dfrac{\partial [F_1]}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial [F_2]}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial [F_3]}{\partial x}+[F_1i+F_2j+F_3z] \cdot [\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}i+\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial y}j+\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial z}k]$ This implies that $div (fF)=f[div F]+[F] \cdot [\nabla f]$ (Proved)
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