3 ms·
> would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks. Why not?
by trendia 8y ago
> would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks.
Why not?
- ur-whale 8y agoI bought the book (a long time ago) thinking I was going to get something exactly like what the OP video is: a mathematical explanation of what the tools do, with some intuitive link between - say - the formula for div and why it measures how much a vector field does indeed "diverge" locally. Instead, the whole book tries to explain the 3 tools using electrostatics as an intuitive justification for how they behave. Ugh. To me, the way electromagnetic fields behave is no particularly intuitive or natural, and the way I do - sort of - manage to understand Maxwell's equations is because I have an intuitive feel for what grad, div and curl do to vector fields.