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Lecture 6: Surface Integrals Recall, area is a vector (0,1,0) (1,0,0) x y z (1,0,1) (0,1,1) Vector area of this surface is which has sensible magnitude and direction Or, by projection x zz y
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Surface Integrals Example from Lecture 3 of a scalar field integrated over a small (differential) vector surface element in plane z=0 Example (0,1) But answer is a vector ; get positive sign by applying right-hand rule to an assumed path around the edge (z>0 is “outside” of surface) Do x first Then do y x y (1,0)
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Vector Surface Integrals Example: volume flow of fluid, with velocity field, through a surface element yielding a scale quantity Consider an incompressible fluid “What goes into surface S through S 1 comes out through surface S 2 ” S 1 and S 2 end on same rim and depends only on rim not surface
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Examples Consider a simple fluid velocity field Through the triangular surface More complicated fluid flow requires an integral x y (1,0) (0,1) (see second sheet of this Lecture)
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Evaluation of Surface Integrals by Projection y x z want to calculate because Note S need not be planar! Note also, project onto easiest plane
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Example Surface Area of some general shape
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Another Example and S is the closed surface given by the paraboloid S 1 and the disk S 2 On S 1 : On S 2 : So total “flux through closed surface” (S 1 +S 2 ) is zero Exercises for student (in polars over the unit circle, i.e. projection of both S 1 and S 2 onto xz plane)
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