Author： Yap Shirley Llamado
Publisher： Mathematical Association of America
ISSN： 1930-0972
Source： American Mathematical Monthly, Vol.116, Iss.3, 2009-03, pp. : 261-267
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Abstract
The Poincare lemma guarantees that every conservative force field F defined on Rn is the differential of a potential field. In this paper, we provide an elementary construction of such potential fields.
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