View Single Post
Jun29-07, 03:12 PM   #20
 
Recognitions:
Homework Helper Homework Help
Science Advisor Science Advisor
and again the second part is zero because of equality of mixed partials and the fact that dr^dt = -dt^dr.

so we get just [df/dt dx/dr] dt^dr + df/dr dx/dt dr^dt]

= [df/dr dx/dt - df/dt dx/dr] dr^dt,