Discussion
A student computes the divergence of a spherical radial field using the Cartesian formula and obtains the wrong answer. The reason is that
Answer: D
In a curvilinear system the coordinate differentials are not all lengths and the unit vectors turn with position, and both effects appear as the metric factors of the operator. Only in Cartesian coordinates do those factors reduce to unity.
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