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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 2 16 b Solution by
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For constant , the curl of a cross product identity reduces toCommuting mixed second partial derivatives gives . Hence the requested sum equals , which is zero because is harmonic. The argument assumes the indicated second derivatives are continuous on the domain.
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