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| Nov 8, 2022 at 18:17 | history | edited | J. Murray | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | NX37B | "The problem now is that the quantity inside the brackets is a function of the coordinates y, so you cannot differentiate them with respect to the coordinates x." Ah I think I see. I missed that the Jacobian is actually a function of x, not x'. | |
| Nov 8, 2022 at 15:19 | history | answered | J. Murray | CC BY-SA 4.0 |