Archive for March, 2004

Conservative

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

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Description of, and theorems on, conservative functions in vector calculus. Proves the equivalence (in simply connected domains) of being conservative, being irrotational, and having a scalar potential.

Vandermonde determinant

Monday, March 1st, 2004

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A special matrix structure with an easy-to-find determinant.