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“ M. C. Escher’s painting Ascending and Descending illustrates a non-conservative vector field, impossibly made…. In reality, the height above the ground is a scalar potential field [the scalar (single number attached to a point) being the height...

M. C. Escher’s painting Ascending and Descending illustrates a non-conservative vector field, impossibly made…. In reality, the height above the ground is a scalar potential field [the scalar (single number attached to a point) being the height above the ground]. If one returns to the same horizontal place, one has gone up exactly as much as one goes down.

So that’s that picture related to

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Conservative vector fields obey the product rule:

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(and the conservative scalar field is also the output of a derivative operation…just a different dimensionality)


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