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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ia Paper 3 9C ii Solution by
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The derivative matrixis symmetric in . Contracting it with the antisymmetric Levi-Civita symbol gives the curlDirect differentiation of the scalar potential givesso . To identify the level sets, use the cross product identityIf , write relative to its direction. Then . Thus each negative level is a circular cylinder with axis and radius . The zero level is the axis itself; positive levels are empty. If , the scalar potential is identically zero, so its zero level is all of space and every other level is empty.
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