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Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford
/
2014 resit
/
12
/
ii
/
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2026-10-25
Apply the
contraction of two Levi-Civita symbols
to the
cross product
:
[
A
×
(
B
×
C
)
]
i
=
ϵ
ijk
ϵ
k
l
m
A
j
B
l
C
m
=
(
δ
i
l
δ
jm
−
δ
im
δ
j
l
)
A
j
B
l
C
m
.
(1)
Thus the
vector triple product identity
is
A
×
(
B
×
C
)
=
B
(
A
⋅
C
)
−
C
(
A
⋅
B
)
.
(2)
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