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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 3 9B a Solution by
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Assume is continuously differentiable. Apply the chain rule to each component with :Contracting the first identity with provesHere differentiates with respect to at fixed , while the time derivative holds fixed. The equality follows directly even at ; no division by is needed. It holds componentwise for the vector field, so it is not restricted to scalar functions.
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