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Activity: Using Technology to Visualize the Curl

The curl of a function of three variables is a vector at each point in space. How can we graph such vector fields? How many different ways can you represent this information?

After you have thought about these questions yourself, you can use the Maple worksheet Visualizing the Curl or the Mathematica notebook Visualizing the Curl to explore several different mechanisms for visualizing the curl in two and three dimensions.


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