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Re: Review | Gradient

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Review | Gradient
Date 2015-11-01 20:08 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Review | Gradient
>> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gradient.html
> 
>> The term "gradient" has several meanings in mathematics. The simplest
>> is as a synonym for slope.
>>
>> The more general gradient, called simply "the" gradient in vector
>> analysis, is a vector operator denoted del  and sometimes also called
>> del or nabla. It is most often applied to a real function of three
>> variables f(u_1,u_2,u_3), and may be denoted...
> 
> 
>> The direction of del f is the orientation in which the directional
>> derivative has the largest value and |del f| is the value of that
>> directional derivative. Furthermore, if del f!=0, then the gradient
>> is perpendicular to the level curve through (x_0,y_0) if z=f(x,y) and
>> perpendicular to the level surface through (x_0,y_0,z_0) if
>> F(x,y,z)=0.
> 
> 
>   More from Wikipedia
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient

Oh whoopdee fucking doo; mathmatics to a physics group. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Review | Gradient Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 13:47 -0600
  Re: Review | Gradient "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 12:08 -0800
    Re: Review | Gradient Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 14:17 -0600
      Re: Review | Gradient "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 12:23 -0800
    Re: Review | Gradient Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-02 00:01 +0000
      Re: Review | Gradient "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 16:07 -0800
        Re: Review | Gradient Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-02 00:11 +0000
          Re: Review | Gradient "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 16:12 -0800
  Re: Review | Gradient jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-01 20:08 +0000
    Re: Review | Gradient Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-01 23:37 +0000
  Re: Review | Gradient Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-01 12:57 -0800

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