What to brush up on before taking Vector Analysis

boneh3ad
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:03:56 +0000

Yeah, the fact that you didn’t recognize that curl and rotation are one in the same tells me that you probably didn’t have a ton of instruction into the physical meaning of the concepts, only the concepts themselves. If you learn these things as you are taking them, it will just make it easier to apply them later down the road if you already have some idea of their physical meaning. Tensors and tensor notation are also something you should pay attention to, as they rear their head in a lot of different fields quite a bit farther down the road.