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    Gradient Divergence Curl

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    - A tensor is a more generalized mathematical entity than a scalar or vector. Scalars have only magnitude, vectors have magnitude and one direction, and tensors can have magnitude and multiple directions. - A gradient is a vector operator that gives the direction of steepest increase of a scalar field like temperature at each point. A divergence is a scalar operator that gives the net flux out of or into each point of a vector field like flow. - Curl measures the degree of rotation of a vector field like fluid velocity around a point, indicating phenomena like whirlpools.

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    Gradient Divergence Curl

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    - A tensor is a more generalized mathematical entity than a scalar or vector. Scalars have only magnitude, vectors have magnitude and one direction, and tensors can have magnitude and multiple directions. - A gradient is a vector operator that gives the direction of steepest increase of a scalar field like temperature at each point. A divergence is a scalar operator that gives the net flux out of or into each point of a vector field like flow. - Curl measures the degree of rotation of a vector field like fluid velocity around a point, indicating phenomena like whirlpools.

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    - A tensor is a more generalized mathematical entity than a scalar or vector. Scalars have only magnitude, vectors have magnitude and one direction, and tensors can have magnitude and multiple directions. - A gradient is a vector operator that gives the direction of steepest increase of a scalar field like temperature at each point. A divergence is a scalar operator that gives the net flux out of or into each point of a vector field like flow. - Curl measures the degree of rotation of a vector field like fluid velocity around a point, indicating phenomena like whirlpools.

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    Gradient Divergence Curl

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    - A tensor is a more generalized mathematical entity than a scalar or vector. Scalars have only magnitude, vectors have magnitude and one direction, and tensors can have magnitude and multiple directions. - A gradient is a vector operator that gives the direction of steepest increase of a scalar field like temperature at each point. A divergence is a scalar operator that gives the net flux out of or into each point of a vector field like flow. - Curl measures the degree of rotation of a vector field like fluid velocity around a point, indicating phenomena like whirlpools.

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    Any quantity that has both magnitude and direction is called a vector.

    Velocity, acceleration,
    and force are a few examples of mechanical vectors.

    if you want to change only the magnitude of a vector without changing its direction, you will
    go for the multiplication of the vector with a scalar quantity.

    In case you want to create a new vector with a different magnitude as well as direction (than
    the initial vector) then you have to multiply the initial vector with another type of
    mathematical entity called a tensor.

    The tensor is a more generalized form of scalar and vector. Or, the scalar, vector are the
    special cases of tensor.

    If a tensor has only magnitude and no direction (i.e., rank 0 tensor), then it is
    called scalar.
    If a tensor has magnitude and one direction (i.e., rank 1 tensor), then it is called
    vector.
    If a tensor has magnitude and two directions (i.e., rank 2 tensor), then it is
    called dyad.

    By representing the position and motion of a single particle using vectors, the equations for motion are simpler and
    more intuitive. Suppose the position of a particle at time is given by the position vector .
    Then the velocity vector is the derivative of the position,

    A gradient is a vector differential operator on a scalar field like temperature. Every point in
    space having a specific temperature. The gradient is a differential operator that gives you a
    vector field, which in every point shows you in what direction in 2 or 3 dimensional space
    the field of values is increasing the fastest. By moving in the opposite direction of the
    gradient you are seeing the fastest decline of the scalar value, say temperature. By moving
    perpendicularly to the gradient you are staying at the same scalar value. So gradient
    operates on a scalar field to give a vector field.

    Divergence is a differential operator that acts on a vector field to give a scalar field, so the
    opposite of gradient. If I have a vector field like a gravitational field or an electric field, by
    taking the divergence I get the scalar field that is proportional to the mass or charge density
    "causing" that field. Everywhere in space where we do have gravitational or electric fields,
    but where no mass or charge is located, the divergence is zero

    If the point saw flux entering, hed scream that everything


    was closing in on him. This is a negative divergence, and the
    point is capturing flux, like water going down a sink.
    If the point saw flux leaving, hed sniff his armpits and say all
    flux was existing. This is a positive divergence, and the point
    is a source of flux, like a hose.

    The symbol for divergence is the upside down triangle


    for gradient (called del) with a dot [ ]. The gradient gives us
    the partial derivatives (dx, dy, dz), and the dot product adds
    them together (xdx + ydy + z*dz).

    Curl:
    Let's go back to our fluid, with the vector field representing fluid velocity. The curl measures
    the degree to which the fluid is rotating about a given point, with whirlpools and tornadoes
    being extreme examples.

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