Sympathetic Vibratory Physics

Carol White
"Curl is a word coined by Hamilton to denote the fluid rotation over a surface area." [Carol White, Energy Potential - Toward a New Electromagnetic Field Theory, page 115]

In vector calculus, the curl (or rotor) is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal rotation of a 3-dimensional vector field. At every point in the field, the curl is represented by a vector. The attributes of this vector (length and direction) characterize the rotation at that point.

The direction of the curl is the axis of rotation, as determined by the right-hand rule, and the magnitude of the curl is the magnitude of rotation. If the vector field represents the flow velocity of a moving fluid, then the curl is the circulation density of the fluid. A vector field whose curl is zero is called irrotational. The curl is a form of differentiation for vector fields. The corresponding form of the fundamental theorem of calculus is Stokes' theorem, which relates the surface integral of the curl of a vector field to the line integral of the vector field around the boundary curve.

The alternative terminology rotor or rotational and alternative notations rot F and âˆ‡Ã—F are often used (the former especially in many European countries, the latter using the del operator and the cross product) for curl and curl F.

Unlike the gradient and divergence, curl does not generalize as simply to other dimensions; some generalizations are possible, but only in three dimensions is the geometrically defined curl of a vector field again a vector field. This is a similar phenomenon as in the 3 dimensional cross product, and the connection is reflected in the notation âˆ‡Ã— for the curl.

The name "curl" was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871. wikipedia

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