Re: Scalar Potential
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- Subject: [mg101812] Re: Scalar Potential
- From: Nicholas <physnick at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <h3hndh$455$1@smc.vnet.net>
Sometimes you can't. If you are talking about a scalar potential that creates a vector field by applying a gradient, you need to know that the vector field is conservative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Conservative_vector_field). Otherwise, a large class of physical vector fields can be decomposed using Helmholtz decomposition theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_decomposition). On Jul 14, 6:41 am, klonk <kehrw... at gmx.net> wrote: > Hi! > > How can i get the scalarpotential of a Vectorfield? > > Any hints on this?