Paper 3, Section I, AVector Calculus | Part IA, 2007By using suffix notation, prove the following identities for the vector fields A\mathbf{A}A and B in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}R3 :∇⋅(A×B)=B⋅(∇×A)−A⋅(∇×B)∇×(A×B)=(B⋅∇)A−B(∇⋅A)−(A⋅∇)B+A(∇⋅B)\begin{gathered} \nabla \cdot(\mathbf{A} \times \mathbf{B})=\mathbf{B} \cdot(\nabla \times \mathbf{A})-\mathbf{A} \cdot(\nabla \times \mathbf{B}) \\ \nabla \times(\mathbf{A} \times \mathbf{B})=(\mathbf{B} \cdot \nabla) \mathbf{A}-\mathbf{B}(\nabla \cdot \mathbf{A})-(\mathbf{A} \cdot \nabla) \mathbf{B}+\mathbf{A}(\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B}) \end{gathered}∇⋅(A×B)=B⋅(∇×A)−A⋅(∇×B)∇×(A×B)=(B⋅∇)A−B(∇⋅A)−(A⋅∇)B+A(∇⋅B)Typos? Please submit corrections to this page on GitHub.