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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford Undated Prelims Mathematics III resit 3 a Solution by
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The middle component suggests a scalar potential with , so . The chain rule and giveMatching the other two components requires . ThereforeIts negative gradient is the given vector field in all three components; the additive constant has no effect on that gradient.
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