Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

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Chapter 16 - Section 16.5 - Curl and Divergence - 16.5 Exercise - Page 1110: 29

Answer

$curl (curl F)=grad(div F) -\nabla^2 F$

Work Step by Step

Show that $curl (curl F)=grad(div F) -\nabla^2 F$ $curl (curl F)=\nabla \times (\nabla \times F)$ This implies that $curl (curl F)=\nabla (\nabla \cdot F) -F (\nabla \cdot \nabla)$ This gives: $curl (curl F)=\nabla (div F) -F (\nabla^2)$ Hence, we have $curl (curl F)=grad(div F) -\nabla^2 F$ (proved)
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