Hi guys,
Thank you very much for you input so far! I've looked up some more info based on the links and terms you all have used, and I feel that I am getting descent understanding about the property. It seems that assuming all partials commute is a bit of an overstatement. In most cases the...
Hi, I am sort of hung up with a particular step in a derivation, and this has caused me to ponder a few properties of partial derivatives. As a result, I believe I may be correct for the wrong reasons. For this example, the starting term is
(\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\frac{\partial...