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Is Curl F Non-Zero in a Conservative Field?

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Start date Dec 3, 2011
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athrun200

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Dec 3, 2011

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It seems there are some problems on the test.
I find that Curl F is not zero, that means the field is not exact.
Am I right?

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Dec 6, 2011

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athrun200 said:

It seems there are some problems on the test.
I find that Curl F is not zero, that means the field is not exact.
Am I right?

I agree with you that Curl F ≠ [itex]\vec 0[/itex] so F is not the gradient of a scalar function, which I presume is what you mean by "not exact".

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