Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 16 - Section 16.5 - Curl and Divergence - 16.5 Exercise - Page 1110: 26

Answer

$curl (fF)=\nabla f \times F+f curl F$

Work Step by Step

Show that $curl (fF)=\nabla f \times F+f curl F$ Consider $F=F_1i+F_2j+F_3z$ $curl (fF)=curl (f F_1i+f F_2 j+fF_3 k)$ or, $=[\dfrac{\partial [fF_3]}{\partial y}-\dfrac{\partial [fF_2]}{\partial z}]i+[\dfrac{\partial [fF_3]}{\partial x}-\dfrac{\partial [fF_1]}{\partial z}]j+[\dfrac{\partial [fF_2]}{\partial x}-\dfrac{\partial [fF_1]}{\partial y}]k$ or, $=F_1[\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial z}j-\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial y}k]+F_2[\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}k-\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial z}i]+F_3[\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial y}i-\dfrac{\partial f}{\partial x}j]+f (curl F)$ or, $=f (curl F)+(\nabla f) \times F$
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