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What is the physical significance of divergence, curl and gradient?
Can you explain to me the physical significance of divergence, curl, and gradient?
Sure! The gradient measures the rate of change of a scalar field in space, while the curl measures the amount and direction of rotation of a vector. The divergence, on the other hand, measures the amount of "source" or "sink" at a given point in a vector field.