Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/ia/paper-3/9b/a/solution

Assume is continuously differentiable. Apply the chain rule to each component with :
Contracting the first identity with proves
Here 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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