Lesson Plan: Divergence and Curl in Cartesian Coordinates
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to find the divergence and the curl of a vector field in Cartesian coordinates and discuss their physical meaning.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- calculate the divergence of a vector field in ,
- calculate the curl of a vector field in ,
- understand some of the properties of the del operator.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- vector fields,
- the grad operator.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- div and curl in spherical/cylindrical coordinates,
- the Laplacian,
- exterior derivative and Hodge star.