3.3  Material Derivative.

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Material derivative is defined as the time rate of change of quantity ( ) for a  fixed particle.

(i)       If   Material description

(ii)       If        Spatial description

 Thus, in spatial description , we have an additional term  indicating the effect of velocity at that location .

   Acceleration of a Particle

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