Timeline for Treating expressions of the form $\vec x \cdot \nabla \vec y$: what is the order of operations?
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| Sep 1, 2020 at 21:21 | vote | accept | PrincessEev | ||
| Sep 1, 2020 at 19:32 | answer | added | pho | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 5:06 | comment | added | user258881 | Very related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/334509/… | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 22:23 | comment | added | Triatticus | If you work out the product $\nabla \vec{y}$ you will see that it is in fact a 2D array and not just a vector. The order doesn't matter in the final expression, it will all produce a vector in the end. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 21:29 | comment | added | G. Smith | If you aren’t comfortable with tensors, take the dot product first and then apply the resulting “directional derivative” operator. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 21:18 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 21:11 | history | asked | PrincessEev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |