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Re: Dot Product in Cylindrical Coordinates

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• Subject: [mg69257] Re: Dot Product in Cylindrical Coordinates
• From: "rych" <rychphd at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:47:11 -0400 (EDT)
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David,
Can one do such calculations (with tangent vectors and differential
forms) in Mathematica yet?
Igor

David Park wrote:
>
> I get 2 also, using an independent calculation using differential forms and
> Hodge star.
>
> I think the Mathematica vector calculus package get confused between the
> points and the tangent vectors.
>