2A3
Indicial Notation and Vector
Symbols
Consider
a right handed, orthogonal Cartesian coordinate system. Let
be the base vectors.

From the orthogonality of the base vectors:
But
Introduce
the symbol called the Kronecker Delta ![]()
and
thus
We can see the matrix
Also
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In general
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