Understanding the Curl of a Vector Potential in Spherical Coordinates

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Homework Statement


For some reason I can't find anywhere online that gives a good example of the curl of a vector function in spherical coordinates. I need to compute ∇ X A where

A = \frac{ksinθ}{r^{2}}\widehat{ϕ}

If anyone can point me in the right direction of a good video or text tutorial that shows the curl of a vector potential in spherical coordinates I would really appreciate it. Thanks.


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I know how the curl is set up in spherical coordinates from my textbook I'm just not one hundred percent sure how to go about it.

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Just figured it out, thanks a ton!
 
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