The document contains 12 problems involving vector calculus concepts like line integrals, surface integrals, and Stokes' theorem. The problems ask students to calculate various line and surface integrals, verify Stokes' theorem for different vector fields and surfaces, determine if vector fields can be expressed as gradients of scalar potentials, and state theorems like the divergence theorem.
The document contains 12 problems involving vector calculus concepts like line integrals, surface integrals, and Stokes' theorem. The problems ask students to calculate various line and surface integrals, verify Stokes' theorem for different vector fields and surfaces, determine if vector fields can be expressed as gradients of scalar potentials, and state theorems like the divergence theorem.
The document contains 12 problems involving vector calculus concepts like line integrals, surface integrals, and Stokes' theorem. The problems ask students to calculate various line and surface integrals, verify Stokes' theorem for different vector fields and surfaces, determine if vector fields can be expressed as gradients of scalar potentials, and state theorems like the divergence theorem.
The document contains 12 problems involving vector calculus concepts like line integrals, surface integrals, and Stokes' theorem. The problems ask students to calculate various line and surface integrals, verify Stokes' theorem for different vector fields and surfaces, determine if vector fields can be expressed as gradients of scalar potentials, and state theorems like the divergence theorem.
Analysis in Many Variables 2018-19 Problems: page 11
85. Integrate curl F, where F = 3ye1 − xze2 + yz 2 e3 , over the portion S of the surface 2z = x2 + y 2 below the plane z = 2, both directly and by using Stokes’ theorem. Take the area elements of S to point outwards, so that their z components are negative. 2 2 ! paraboloid of equation z = x +y intersects the plane z = y in a curve C. Calculate 86. The C v · dx for v = 2ze1 + xe2 + ye3 using Stokes’ theorem. Check your answer by evaluating the line integral directly. " ! 87. For an open surface S with boundary C, show that 2 S u · dA = C (u × x ) · dx , where u is a fixed vector. # 88. Verify Stokes’ theorem for the upper hemispherical surface S: z = 1 − x2 − y 2 , z ≥ 0, with F equal to the radial vector field, i.e. F(x, y, z) = xe1 + ye2 + ze3 .
89. Let F = yez e1 + xez e2 + xyez e3 . Show that the integral of F around a regular closed curve C that is the boundary of a surface S is zero.
90. By applying Stokes’ theorem
" to the vector!field G = ||x ||2 a (with a a constant vector), or otherwise, show that S x × dA = − 12 C ||x ||2 dx , where S is the area bounded by the closed curve C. " 91. Exam question June 2002 (Section B): Evaluate the line integral I = C F · dx where F(x ) = 2ye1 + ze2 + 3ye3 and the path C is the intersection of the surface of equation x2 + y 2 + z 2 = 4z and the surface of equation z = x + 2, taken in a clockwise direction to an observer at the origin. A picture of the path is required, as well as full justifications of the theoretical results you might use.
92. Exam question
! 2012 (Section B) Q9(a)(ii): Use Stokes’ theorem to calculate the line integral C ydx+zdy +xdz, where C is the intersection of the surfaces x2 +y 2 +z 2 = a2 and x + y + z = 0 and is orientated anticlockwise when viewed from above. Suggestion: Instead of one of the two standard methods for surface integrals, just use ∇f dA = ||∇f || dA and think about how the surfaces intersect. " 93. Consider the vector field F = y e1 + (z−x) e2 + (x3 +y) e3 . Evaluate S (∇×F)·dA explicitly, where (i) S is the disk x2 + y 2 ≤ 4, z = 1, (ii) S is the surface of a paraboloid x2 + y 2 = 5 − z above the plane z = 1.
Verify that each of these agrees with Stokes’ theorem by considering the integral of F around each bounding contour. ! " 94. Verify Stokes’ theorem, C F · dx = S ∇ × F · dA, when S is the part of the surface of the sphere x2 + y 2 + (z − 1)2 = r2 above the plane z = 0, and F(x, y, z) = (z, x, y). Assume that r > 1 so that the boundary C of S is non-empty. Suggestion: parametrise S with spherical coordinates centred on the point (0, 0, 1). Analysis in Many Variables 2018-19 Problems: page 12
95. State a necessary and sufficient condition for a vector field F to be expressible in the form F = ∇ φ in some simply-connected region. The scalar field φ is called a scalar potential, though sometimes the opposite sign is used. Determine whether the following vector fields are expressible in this form (i) (a·x ) x , (ii) (a·x ) a , (iii) (a·a ) x , (iv) a×x , (v) a×(a × x ) , and find the vector fields, F, for which the corresponding potentials are 1 1 2 (a) 2 (a · x )2 , (b) 2 a ||x ||2 − 12 (a · x )2 . Here a is a constant non-zero vector, and a2 = ||a||2 .
96. Evaluate the line integral
$ P2 yz dx + xz dy + (xy + z 2 ) dz P1
from P1 with co-ordinates (1,0,0) to P2 at (1,0,1) explicitly,
(a) along a straight line in the z–direction, and (b) along a helical path parametrised by x (t) = e1 cos t + e2 sin t + e3 t/2π , where t varies along the path. Compare these two results – does this suggest that there might be a general formula for the integral from P1 with coordinates (1,0,0), as before, to any point P with coordinates (x, y, z)? Check your answer when P = P2 .
97. Exam question June 2002 (Section B):
" (a) State the conditions for the line integral c F · dx from x 0 to x 1 to be independent of the path connecting these two points. " (b) Determine the value of the line integral c F · dx where
1 πp 1 − ep x= ln(1 + p), y = sin , z= , ln 2 2 1−e with the parameter p in the range 0 ≤ p ≤ 1, from (0, 0, 0) to (1, 1, 1).
98. Exam question May 2015 (Section A) Q5 (the exam question was parts (a) and (b) only) : (a) State the divergence theorem. " (b) Use it to calculate S U · dA where S is the surface of the cube with faces x = ±1, y = ±1 and z = ±1 and
U(x, y, z) = ( x y 2 , y x2 , z ) .
(c) Check your answer by a direct calculation of the surface integral.
