Calculus 3 Lecture 15.1: INTRODUCTION to Vector Fields (and what makes them Conservative)

Calculus 3 Lecture 15.1: INTRODUCTION to Vector Fields (and what makes them Conservative): What Vector Fields are, and what they look like. We discuss graphing Vector Fields in 2-D and 3-D and talk about what a Conservative Vector Field means.

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