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    Einstein summation notation for magnetic dipole field

    Do you know of any materials online that would give more written out examples of such derivations with Einstein summation? I just need more practice
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    Einstein summation notation for magnetic dipole field

    O wow, thanks. that makes much more sense now.
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    Einstein summation notation for magnetic dipole field

    You were too fast. Was trying to get it to work just needed to delete the spaces in brackets I guess.
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    Einstein summation notation for magnetic dipole field

    I can do this derivation the old fashioned way, but am having trouble doing it with einstein summation notation. Since \vec{B}=\nabla \times \vec{a} \vec{B}=\mu_{0}/4\pi (\nabla \times (m \times r)r^{-3})) 4\pi \vec{B}/\mu_{0}=\epsilon_{ijk} \nabla_{j}(\epsilon_{klm} m_{l} r_{m} r^{-3})...
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    Need help reducing exponential rotated plane wave

    I forgot I didn't post the whole problem in the beginning. Disregard the complex conjugate part. This might be helpful need to chug thru this now. Thanks
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    Need help reducing exponential rotated plane wave

    yeah I guess, but i was hoping to be able to take it back into a form that would have exponentials again. I wonder if me dropping the complex conjugate terms in the prior steps be the reason why its not simplifying the way I want it to. I will try with them included i guess
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    Need help reducing exponential rotated plane wave

    i understand that the second term is 1 but my attempt at reducing the first term |1+e^{ik \Delta cos\theta}|=|(1+cos(k \Delta cos\theta))+i sin(k \Delta cos\theta)| \sqrt{(1+cos(k \Delta cos\theta))^{2}+sin^{2}(k \Delta cos\theta)} =\sqrt{2+2cos(k \Delta cos\theta)} in which I'm stuck
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    Need help reducing exponential rotated plane wave

    k I'll review that material. I should have said that k is a 4 vectore driven at a frequency in the z direction
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    Need help reducing exponential rotated plane wave

    I have an EM problem (michelson interferometerish) where I have a term that I need to reduce. It is |1+e^{ik \Delta cos\theta}|^{2}+| e^{ik \Delta sin\theta}|^{2} I have foiled it and squared the last term but is there something that I am missing. I am multiplying it by a large matrix and...
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    How Do You Use Einstein Summation to Prove Vector Calculus Identities?

    Can anyone suggest a book that has a ton of examples using einstein summation? I feel behind most of my class in regards to the notation. It just takes me too long to do problems.
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    How Do You Use Einstein Summation to Prove Vector Calculus Identities?

    unless I am seeing this completely wrong, the left side (first line up above) and the right side (on the last line) is twice the left side when I add them together I was thinking maybe I had to express the right side like this \epsilon_{ijk} (\nabla f)_{j} v_{k} + f \epsilon_{klm} \partial_{l}...
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    How Do You Use Einstein Summation to Prove Vector Calculus Identities?

    prove the identity $$\nabla\times(f\cdot\vec{v})=(\nabla f) \times \vec{v} + f \cdot \nabla \times \vec{v}$$ I can do the proof with normal vector calculus, but I am in a tensor intensive course and would like to do this with einstein summation notation, but am having some trouble since I am...
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    Taylor expansion of an electrostatics problem

    Okay, so my thinking was not too far off. Now I just need to get to work. Thanks for the clarification on both the tex and the problem.
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