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Example Question #1 : Line Integrals
Write the parametric equations of the line that passes through the points
and .
First, you must find the vector that is parallel to the line.
This vector is
.
From the points we were given, this becomes
.
To form the parametric equations, we need to pick a point that lies on the line we want.
The point
is used.The vector form of the line is from the following equation
.
We then rewrite each expression in terms of the variables x, y, and z.
Example Question #2 : Line Integrals
Evaluate the line integral
of the functionover the line segment from to
Evaluate the line integral
using the functionover the line segment from to
Define the Parametric Equations to Represent
The points given lie on the line
. Define the parameter , then can be written . Therefore, the parametric equations for are:
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The line integral of a function
along the curve with the parametric equation and with is defined by:
(1)
Where
is the vector derivative of the vector , therefore is simply the magnitude of the vector derivative.______________________________________________________________
Write the vector
:
Differentiate,
The absolute value (magnitude) of this vector is:
Write the function
in terms of the parameter :
Insert everything into Equation (1) noting that the limits of integration will be
due to the fact that the parameter varies from to over the line segment we are integrating over.
Example Question #1 : Line Integrals
Evaluate
, where , and is any path that starts at , and ends at .
Since there isn't a specific path we need to take, we just evaluate
at the end points.
Example Question #1 : Line Integrals
Use Green's Theorem to evaluate
, where is a triangle with vertices , , with positive orientation.
First we need to make sure that the conditions for Green's Theorem are met.
The conditions are met because it is positively oriented, piecewise smooth, simple, and closed under the region (see below).
In this particular case
, and , where , and refer to .We know from Green's Theorem that
So lets find the partial derivatives.
Example Question #2 : Green's Theorem
Use Green's Theorem to evaluate the line integral
over the region R, described by connecting the points
, orientated clockwise.
Using Green's theorem
since the region is oriented clockwise, we would have
which gives us
Example Question #3 : Green's Theorem
Use Greens Theorem to evaluate the line integral
over the region connecting the points
oriented clockwise
Using Green's theorem
Since the region is oriented clockwise
Example Question #1 : Line Integrals
Compute
for
In order to find the divergence, we need to remember the formula.
Divergence Formula:
, where , , and correspond to the components of a given vector field .
Now lets apply this to our situation.
Example Question #1 : Line Integrals
Compute
for
In order to find the divergence, we need to remember the formula.
Divergence Formula:
, where , , and correspond to the components of a given vector field .
Now lets apply this to our situation.
Example Question #1 : Divergence
Compute
for
In order to find the divergence, we need to remember the formula.
Divergence Formula:
, where , , and correspond to the components of a given vector field .
Now lets apply this to our situation.
Example Question #4 : Line Integrals
Find
, where
In order to find the divergence, we need to remember the formula.
Divergence Formula:
, where , , and correspond to the components of a given vector field .
Now lets apply this to our situation.
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