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This document outlines the tutorial assignments for PH 102 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, due on January 21, 2025. It includes tasks related to surface integrals, momentum and angular momentum operators in quantum mechanics, and applications of Stokes' and Gauss's theorems in various coordinate systems. The problems require calculations involving vector fields and integrals in Cartesian and spherical polar coordinates.

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This document outlines the tutorial assignments for PH 102 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, due on January 21, 2025. It includes tasks related to surface integrals, momentum and angular momentum operators in quantum mechanics, and applications of Stokes' and Gauss's theorems in various coordinate systems. The problems require calculations involving vector fields and integrals in Cartesian and spherical polar coordinates.

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PH 102 Department of Physics

Tutorial 2 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati


Due: 21/01/2025 7:55 am-8:50 am

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1. Evaluate, in Cartesian coordinates‚ the surface integral ⃗r · n̂ dS for any closed surface
enclosing the volume V . Here, ⃗r denotes a position vector.
2. In PH 101 you encountered the momentum operator in quantum mechanics. Recall that
d
the momentum operator had the form p = ℏi dx in one dimension. Now that we have
generalized everything in three dimensions, the momentum operator in three dimensions
⃗ Hence the angular momentum operator L
should take the form p⃗ = ℏi ∇. ⃗ = ⃗r × p⃗ =
ℏ ⃗ Show that the angular momentum operator in spherical polar coordinate is
(⃗r × ∇).
i
of the form
 
⃗ = ℏ 1 ∂ ∂
L −θ̂ + ϕ̂
i sin θ ∂ϕ ∂θ

3. (a) Calculate the closed line integral of the vector field F⃗ = 2z x̂ + xŷ + yẑ over a circle
of radius R in the x − y plane centered at the origin. For this case, verify Stokes’
theorem by taking the open surface to be a hemisphere of radius R in z > 0 (see
Fig. 1 for details).
(b) Calculate the same closed line integral by cleverly using Gauss’s divergence theorem
by considering the hemispherical surface together with the disc on the x − y plane
to form a closed surface.

Figure 1: Hemisphere

4. Compute the line integral of

F⃗ = r cos2 θ r̂ − r cos θ sin θ θ̂ + 3r ϕ̂,

around the path shown in Fig. 2. The points are labeled


by their Cartesian coordinates. Do it in spherical polar
coordinates. Check your answer using Stokes’ theorem.

Figure 2: The path


PH 102 Due: 21/01/2025 - Page 2 of 2 7:55 am-8:50 am

5. Check the Gauss’s divergence theorem for the vector


field

⃗v = s (2 + sin2 ϕ) ŝ + s sin ϕ cos ϕ ϕ̂ + 3z ẑ,

using the quarter cylinder of radius 2 and height 5, as


shown in Fig.3. Do it using cylindrical polar coordinate
system.

Figure 3: cylinder

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