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Deriving the curl for conservative force fields

Deriving the curl for conservative force fields. This video walks through the mathematics behind curl, explains why it vanishes for conservative fields, and connects the concept to physical intuition ...
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics ...