A proposal has been made recently that a special notation be adopted for the Laplacian of a vector. It is shown that such a notation is unjustified since the usual scalar Laplacian gives the correct result when operating on a vector. In a recent article Moon and Spencer (1) 2 develop expressions fo
The meaning of the vector Laplacian
โ Scribed by Parry Moon; Domina Eberle Spencer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1953
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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โฆ Synopsis
The increasing use of Maxwell's equations necessitates a careful consideration of the best formulation for electromagnetic problems. Advance in the past has been hindered by an unfortunate notation that employs the same symbol V ~ for two entirely different operators--the vector Laplacian and the scalar Laplacian. A general equation is developed in this paper for the vector Laplacian in any orthogonal, curvilinear coordinate system; and this equation allows the simple formulation of all electrodynamic problems by means of the vector Helmholtz equation,
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