Discussion
True or false: a field that is both solenoidal and irrotational must be zero.
Answer: B
A uniform field has zero divergence and zero curl and is plainly not zero. What the two conditions together require is that the field derive from a potential satisfying Laplace's equation, which has many non-trivial solutions.
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