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What is the physical significance of divergence, curl and gradient?
That's interesting. Can you explain how these concepts are related to each other?
Of course. The gradient is the operator that yields the vector field that has the same direction and magnitude as the maximum rate of change of the scalar field. The curl operator yields the vector field that has the same direction and magnitude as the maximum amount of rotation, while divergence yields the scalar field that represents the amount of "source" or "sink" at each point in the vector field.