Gauss Divergence Theorem. Get the DEEPEST Intuition.

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  • @aleksandr-physics
    @aleksandr-physics  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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    • @tyrian007
      @tyrian007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you do this for Navier Stokes and RANS turbulence modeling?

    • @hossamhafez9826
      @hossamhafez9826 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@tyrian007may it be possible as
      President of Arab Republic of Egypt has said

  • @jobebrian
    @jobebrian ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The very essence of clarity. As a city bus driver, I must say this is easily the most straightforward explanation of GDT I have ever heard. Many thanks!

    • @compegord07
      @compegord07 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As I read this, all of the connotations of these words arranged this way is almost absurd in what it says:
      It starts with the hyperbolic “very essence of clarity.”
      What do you or anyone else generally assume about someone who is a bus driver? If it isn’t that why is it relevant enough to mention?
      In addition to above, would we assume that any random or even average bus driver would have heard of, knows or thought about GDT?

    • @jobebrian
      @jobebrian ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@compegord07 I was just having some fun with some of the other commenters here. Several have said things like, “I’m an Electrical Engineer and this is best explanation …” and “I am a PhD student in Mathematics, and this clearest video …”
      I really am a bus driver, and although I do enjoy watching videos about math, this was just above my level. I certainly don’t pretend to speak for all bus drivers.

    • @pandakso3365
      @pandakso3365 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As a city bus driver you really have time to think

    • @jobebrian
      @jobebrian ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pandakso3365 Yep.

  • @malefetsanekoalane4549
    @malefetsanekoalane4549 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You set out to give "the deepest understanding" You achieved this magnicently. Thanks a million.

  • @KsmithBlackstar
    @KsmithBlackstar ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You actually explain things. Most of my professors speak as if I should already know the topic I am learning. You are a savior.

    • @alphalunamare
      @alphalunamare ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have Faith in yourself! If you do not understand then ASK! Any Prof who looks down at your question is a failed Prof. We all have to learn, it's just that some prof's get so comfortable that they forget their own troublesome journey to tenure. I came from the wrong side of the tracks and did mathematics and upset a few with my up front, no respect, questioning. Luckily there were enough Profs around to shield me from expulsion for being rude in response to a ridiculous answer. What I am saying is that You have the ability to achieve, don't let that be curtailed by a numpty with a superiority complex.

  • @piotr1175
    @piotr1175 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That is probably the clearest explanation I've ever had in my life. This is truly brilliant 👏

  • @tennisfreak312
    @tennisfreak312 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In CFD, Gauss divergence theorem is very important for FVM. Thank you so much for this clear and intuitive explanation.

  • @petercheng7890
    @petercheng7890 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!. Unlike the book just teaching us how to put the number into it, it explains what exactly we are doing so we can be more easy to understand and accept the concept. Thank you so much.

  • @marcelb6214
    @marcelb6214 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I am just amazed. After 6 years of studying this was the best video I have ever seen.

  • @renesperb
    @renesperb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is really how one should explain the divergence theorem . It plays a central role in partial differential equations and has many applications.
    Well done !

  • @WenGao-ys9rw
    @WenGao-ys9rw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for your explanation! It's the clearest explanation of the divergence theorem I've ever seen. When reading the calculus textbook, it just tell me the theorem and a mathematical proof, but the connection between the divergence theorem and the green theorem is still ambiguous to me. Your animation helps me understand the connection between them! Thank you very much!

  • @mayonakao2488
    @mayonakao2488 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wish I could like this video twice. I know nothing of the intuition behind Electrodynamics, and yet this made it max’s equations seem as clear as day. Great work!

  • @shobanaa6936
    @shobanaa6936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    Sir, I am a physics student, please teach the green theorem and stoke theorem ,I am always support for u,thank u for your teaching,thanks a lot 😊😊

    • @umbraemilitos
      @umbraemilitos ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They are all versions of the same thing: "The Generalized Stoke's Theorem." If you learn that, you can use those and many other examples.

    • @savejobar
      @savejobar ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pls tell me what course you are in and what university you study at. In Russia, these theorems are studied in the third semester of education

    • @Haveuseenmyjetpack
      @Haveuseenmyjetpack ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please explain gauge theory.

    • @joefuentes2977
      @joefuentes2977 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@savejobarIn US it's generally called Calculus 3 or Multivariable calculus or vector calculus. The generalized Stokes' Theorem is usually covered in a course called Differential Geometry

    • @savejobar
      @savejobar ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@deusexmachina3091 I learned it on my third semester of undergraduate in the direction of plasmic synthetic

  • @JakubS
    @JakubS ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was at a taster lecture where a Cambridge professor tried to explain this formula, and I was entirely dumbfounded.
    But now that I've watched your video, it all makes sense!

  • @newsgo1876
    @newsgo1876 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Mathematics is a concise description of what we take for granted.

  • @haroonrasheed3844
    @haroonrasheed3844 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The best explanation I have seen yet. Thank you bro 🙏

  • @vadiquemyself
    @vadiquemyself 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    the idea is that it sums up to only what’s on the boundary surface of a volume, because all internal small volume parts dv mutually compensate (as to 0) each other on adjacent neighboring surfaces

  • @manarlab84
    @manarlab84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a gem - I came across it as a suggestion from TH-cam while viewing tutorials about Transformers. The equation in this video gave me a deeper understading of the use of scalar and dot product in understanding the similarties between features and the relationships between features. Thanks a lot!

  • @Epoch11
    @Epoch11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's nice when you have someone who can explain things in a way that are intuitive. Please keep up the good work.

    • @aleksandr-physics
      @aleksandr-physics  ปีที่แล้ว

      I will! Thank you very much for your positive feedback!

  • @shamsanjum361
    @shamsanjum361 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I havent seen a better explanation than this for divergence theorem ever!

  • @joeponsford3503
    @joeponsford3503 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    absolutely amazing explanation to do in 9 minutes is brilliant

  • @djredrover
    @djredrover ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I am an EE engineer and I must say, this is THE BEST illustration of GDT I have seen, and I have seen MANY! Well done. (Same with your Maxwell Equation video)

    • @fredthechamp3475
      @fredthechamp3475 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are an Electrical Engineer engineer?

    • @djredrover
      @djredrover ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fredthechamp3475 ahaha I guess I am an EEE! LOL

  • @ShizhouLuo
    @ShizhouLuo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A very explicit and intuitive explanation. Thanks.

  • @jeffreyhowarth7850
    @jeffreyhowarth7850 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This helps me understand more clearly some of Maxwell's equations. I'm also interested in closed forms. Thank you

  • @PatrickDonaldson
    @PatrickDonaldson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for posting this, it was a great presentation and helped me review this material to help my nephew who is struggling with it just like I did 30 yrs ago. I now understand this (the math) better than ever! The physical concept has been clear long before tackling the formal math, but it's nice to be able to articulate the concept using the language of math.

  • @dawoudnaseem1067
    @dawoudnaseem1067 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Best explanation of the Divergence Theorem!

  • @1bite-
    @1bite- ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the thumbnail does a really good job of relating the divergence integral with the closed loop one
    i imagine the cubes within the larger cube to represent the infinitesimal points at which you test divergence (it is based off of a derivative after all), and if you just project the surface faces of the infinitesimals to the larger box you get the flux thru the entire surface

  • @sjonnithors1986
    @sjonnithors1986 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh man! I wish I had this video back in 2012 during my first year in Engineering.

  • @androidbeginners3043
    @androidbeginners3043 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm speechless 😮
    You are a legend
    Thank you ❤️

  • @rx5514
    @rx5514 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would be better if you could explain more about divergence, but overall this is a highly undervalued channel.

  • @chuckforke9785
    @chuckforke9785 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is an awesome video. Great intuitive explanation. This helped me understand Divergence theorem for my calc class.

  • @alexlo7708
    @alexlo7708 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If this was to be taught in my undergrad electro magnetic field subject , it'd make us much more understanding than we were then.

  • @Tamir_Karniely
    @Tamir_Karniely ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing video! So much explained and illustrated beautifully and detailedlly. A real deep explain for each component in the writing convention. Keep on the exellent work!

  • @vanshmishra7119
    @vanshmishra7119 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Makes sense now! Thanks for the visual intuition.

  • @manpreetsingh-yh5iu
    @manpreetsingh-yh5iu ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks @Universaldenker for this perhaps most intuitive and meticulous explanation of the divergence theorem.

  • @ThatBigGuyAl
    @ThatBigGuyAl ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hi, just to let you know, before the 2:00 mark, you have da_y listed twice in the vectors (you forgot the z component).
    Great video though!

  • @Zamperla
    @Zamperla ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is such a good and visually pleasant explanation! thanks a lot!

  • @maxqi3729
    @maxqi3729 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pretty epic dude, very underrated

  • @saeedelghaziri2385
    @saeedelghaziri2385 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing explanation, I understood it from the first 30 seconds of you speaking. Quality explanation !

  • @Integral_of_x_i_987
    @Integral_of_x_i_987 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So clear and concise.😍😍😍😍

  • @Britishbaptist
    @Britishbaptist ปีที่แล้ว

    You have a talent for clarity in your explanation . thank you for this.

  • @SanzAlfredo
    @SanzAlfredo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sorry... I will use my language to express my opinion about the video....
    GRACIAS!!!!! Esto me llevó mucho esfuerzo de entender en mi época de estudiante de ingeniería. La claridad del video es perfecta. Muchas Gracias.
    Saludos desde La Ciudad del Humo.

  • @theQuantumPenguin
    @theQuantumPenguin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Error in the graphic of the da vector @1:10 - 1:25 and @1:36 - 1:54, does not matter too much to the presentation which is very well done.

  • @blackhole1222
    @blackhole1222 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    you earned a new subscriber!

  • @gastonsolaril.237
    @gastonsolaril.237 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is much easily understood while studying fluid dynamics...
    "The amount of water that flows through a closed surface, is equal to the change of volume inside the enclosed body"

  • @sashamarie3712
    @sashamarie3712 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Exactly the explanation I was looking for, thank you!

    • @aleksandr-physics
      @aleksandr-physics  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey Sasha, thank you very much for the comment!

  • @trippstreehouse
    @trippstreehouse ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great explanation.

  • @1008OH
    @1008OH ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes I love this intuition as shown on the thumbnail, all of the inner surfaces cancel out and it's just the outermost ones left

  • @JobsTech-y6n
    @JobsTech-y6n ปีที่แล้ว

    Man!! your contribution will be remembered.

  • @Francinun
    @Francinun 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So much clearer after this, THANKS

  • @meccamiles7816
    @meccamiles7816 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really great video. Well done on the visuals.

  • @Krishnanjan_Sil
    @Krishnanjan_Sil 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    More on Mathematical Physics please

  • @Amansingh-nl4ev
    @Amansingh-nl4ev ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Killed it. Now i wonder how flux is a scalar.

  • @isarojdahal
    @isarojdahal ปีที่แล้ว

    OMG. THIs is so crystal clear explanation. Thankyou so much .

  • @lukmanhdrjaya
    @lukmanhdrjaya ปีที่แล้ว

    Best explanation i've seen so far. Many thanks for the video dude!

  • @marshmelows
    @marshmelows ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well explained, good speaking rhythm, the visuals were great too, very easy to understand! Loved it
    I must confess I am revising this information years later I studied this in my college years, so it's easier to understand now.
    Good luck to my thermodynamics bros and braettes!

  • @robertdavie1221
    @robertdavie1221 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good explanation.

  • @Soundsaboutright42
    @Soundsaboutright42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Dude I wish you were my math teacher growing up 😂

  • @MusicEngineeer
    @MusicEngineeer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    very well done! thanks you! ...i have the strong hunch that stokes' theorem will be coming soon

  • @atanurakshit6684
    @atanurakshit6684 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Nice explanation.👍🙏

  • @ismagine
    @ismagine ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! Btw, there’s a typo on the vector da at 1:41 there are two dy’s missing a dz term

  • @manoprithviraj8668
    @manoprithviraj8668 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very well illustrated and explained :)

  • @newsgo1876
    @newsgo1876 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Surface to the volume, is just like what the two end points are to a segment of line.

  • @gauravchandra1585
    @gauravchandra1585 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lucky are those who have great teachers or mentors

  • @Olaf_Schwandt
    @Olaf_Schwandt ปีที่แล้ว +2

    brilliant explanation

  • @AdelElsayed-qr9dg
    @AdelElsayed-qr9dg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent explanation❤

  • @sidpandey2762
    @sidpandey2762 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing, Sir. Thank you. 🙏😊

  • @AbinashDwibedi
    @AbinashDwibedi 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent explanation sir 👍🏼

  • @Native_love
    @Native_love ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautifully explained! Subbed to your awesomeness!

  • @dolbodolb6173
    @dolbodolb6173 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent. What prevents the textbook authors to explain things this way with lots of insightful illustrations instead of a wall of formulas!

  • @ww4011
    @ww4011 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, I just had my exam a week ago, I hope I can know this video before the final ...

  • @muhittinselcukgoksu1327
    @muhittinselcukgoksu1327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you so much.

  • @bisrattegegn1686
    @bisrattegegn1686 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    subscribed by the 4th minute, just mind blown

  • @a.s.l711
    @a.s.l711 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If only my prof teaches like this

  • @moticohen6785
    @moticohen6785 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent!

  • @samisiddiqi5411
    @samisiddiqi5411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome channel. Thanks so much.

    • @aleksandr-physics
      @aleksandr-physics  2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @atakan716
    @atakan716 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish professors knew how to explain concepts better like this😅 how could one not get this theorem after watching this!🎉

  • @Cardaverr
    @Cardaverr 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very clearly explained, thanks.

  • @chongwang7768
    @chongwang7768 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So it's basically like saying, when you add up everything produced in a country and subtract everything consumed, the result is the exports of the country.

  • @frun
    @frun ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Reminiscent of the holographic principle and ADS/CFT

  • @ERFARINGyoutube
    @ERFARINGyoutube 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Perfect explanation for revision

  • @bishalsarkar73
    @bishalsarkar73 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well explained ❤

  • @eterty8335
    @eterty8335 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    so my guess is that from the perspective of the volume integral, you're splitting the enclosed volume into like infitesimally small cubes, and when you're adding them up, every two adjacent cubes share one face, and both bring it up into the computations but with opposite effects (facing opposite directions), so the inner stuff all gets cancelled out and you end up only with the outer faces, which is just the surface?

    • @greatgrumble
      @greatgrumble ปีที่แล้ว

      You don't even need to got that far. The volume integral sums up the sources and sinks that "create" positive and negative flux. Inside that volume. The remaining flux has to flow out of (or into respectively) the volume.
      Picture each source as a tap and each sink as a drain. If all taps combined carry more water than the capacity of all drains combined, the amount of water increases (And of course the mathematical drain acts as a negative tap so this example also works for a decrease).

  • @nako7569
    @nako7569 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    basically, what goes out, or comes in, must pass through the surface, am I right?

  • @lufax
    @lufax ปีที่แล้ว

    Great step by step explanation

  • @danielarisa1610
    @danielarisa1610 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job man!

  • @tanvirmahtab7666
    @tanvirmahtab7666 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God bless you man

  • @learning_with_irving4266
    @learning_with_irving4266 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best explanation of calculus and physics

  • @cakefactoryy
    @cakefactoryy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    AMAZING video!!!👍

  • @nicolasfernandes9987
    @nicolasfernandes9987 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great vídeo, congradulations 👏

  • @rounakrizvi2915
    @rounakrizvi2915 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Sen sei

  • @RalKrish
    @RalKrish ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please provide an intuition for cross products and determinant

  • @imadebouftini316
    @imadebouftini316 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Important clarification !! this transformation originally belongs to Green and Ostrogradski but not to Gauss

  • @thomaspham2752
    @thomaspham2752 ปีที่แล้ว

    great graphical explanations !

  • @rickk4869
    @rickk4869 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The total change in all volume elements has to equal what goes in the total volume.

  • @ernj85
    @ernj85 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Physicists: “The sum of the forces entering or leaving an imaginary spacial boundary is equivalent in magnitude and direction to the sum of the forces at the boundary itself”
    College students: “This is getting complicated.”

    • @alphalunamare
      @alphalunamare ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am not surprised because that is totally incorrect, whom ever said that should be sacked.

  • @afsarshaikh9654
    @afsarshaikh9654 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was amazing!!!!❤

  • @dattu7733
    @dattu7733 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @mallikarjunaswamy390
    @mallikarjunaswamy390 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    very very excelent explation sir

  • @mozartjpn137
    @mozartjpn137 ปีที่แล้ว

    The scalar product of two vectors is expressed as the product of a 1x3 matrix and a 3x1 matrix.

  • @antoniocampos9721
    @antoniocampos9721 ปีที่แล้ว

    Execent. Better than the videos about this stuff which I watched in Portuguese.