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Phycc101 Assignment Dr. Amrita

This document outlines 8 questions for an assignment on curvilinear coordinates for a physics course. It asks students to define curvilinear coordinates and coordinate lines/surfaces, express the del operator and scale factors in curvilinear coordinates, find expressions for line/surface/volume elements, determine basis vectors and show their orthogonality, obtain divergence and curl of vector fields in curvilinear coordinates, and calculate the del and laplacian of r and r^2 in Cartesian coordinates.

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Phycc101 Assignment Dr. Amrita

This document outlines 8 questions for an assignment on curvilinear coordinates for a physics course. It asks students to define curvilinear coordinates and coordinate lines/surfaces, express the del operator and scale factors in curvilinear coordinates, find expressions for line/surface/volume elements, determine basis vectors and show their orthogonality, obtain divergence and curl of vector fields in curvilinear coordinates, and calculate the del and laplacian of r and r^2 in Cartesian coordinates.

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PHYCC101 -ASSIGNMENT : UNIT 3 (DR.

AMRITA)

1. Explain what is meant by Curvilinear coordinates? Define Coordinate surface and


Coordinate lines and elaborate with examples.
2. What is meant by Del operator? Obtain the expression of Del operator in Curvilinear
Coordinate system.
3. What does scale factors represent in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate system?
Obtain its general expression.
4. Find expressions for the following:
(i)Line element in Curvilinear Coordinate system.
(ii) Surface element in Curvilinear Coordinate system.
(iii) Volume element in Curvilinear Coordinate system.
5. What are the basis vectors in Curvilinear Coordinate system. Show that they are
orthogonal.
6. Obtain the divergence of a vector field in Curvilinear Coordinate system.
7. Obtain the Curl of a vector field in Curvilinear Coordinate system.
8. Calculate ∇𝑟 , ∇𝑟 2 where r is the position vector in Cartesian coordinate system.

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