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Integrating Vector Fields.: Tuesday, October 16

The document summarizes 4 problems involving vector fields and line integrals: 1. Sketching and computing line integrals of the vector field F=(y,0) along different paths. 2. Computing the line integral of a vector field F along a curve C and checking the answer by parameterizing C. 3. Computing the work done by a constant force along different paths between two points, and relating it to a potential function. 4. An optional extra practice problem involving computing a line integral.

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Integrating Vector Fields.: Tuesday, October 16

The document summarizes 4 problems involving vector fields and line integrals: 1. Sketching and computing line integrals of the vector field F=(y,0) along different paths. 2. Computing the line integral of a vector field F along a curve C and checking the answer by parameterizing C. 3. Computing the work done by a constant force along different paths between two points, and relating it to a potential function. 4. An optional extra practice problem involving computing a line integral.

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Tuesday, October 16

Integrating vector elds.

1. Consider the vector eld F = (y, 0) on R2 . (a) Draw a sketch of F on the region where 2 x 2 and 2 y 2. Check you answer with the instructor. (b) Consider the following two curves which start at A = (2, 0) and end at B = (2, 0), namely the line segment C 1 and upper semicircle C 2 . Add these curves to your sketch, and compute both the instructor.
C 1 Fd r and C 2 Fd r.

Check you answers with

(c) Based on your answer in (b), could F be f for some f : R2 R? Explain why or why not. 2. Consider the curve C and vector eld F shown below.

(a) Calculate FT, where here T is the unit tangent vector along C . Without parameterizing C , evaluate C F d r by using the fact that it is equal to C F T ds. (b) Find a parameterization of C and a formula for F. Use them to check your answer in (a) by computing C F d r explicitly. 3. Consider the points A = (0, 0) and B = (, 2). Suppose an object of mass m moves from A to B and experiences the constant force F = mg j, where g is the gravitational constant. (a) If the object follows the straight line from A to B , calculate the work W done by gravity using the formula from the rst week of class.

(b) Now suppose the object follows half of an inverted cycloid C as shown below. Explicitly parameterize C and use that to calculate the work done via a line integral.

(c) Find a function f : R2 R so that f = F. Use the Fundamental Theorem of Line Integrals to check your answers for (a) and (b). Have you seen the quantity f anywhere before? If so, what was its name? 4. If you get this far, work #52 from Section 16.2:

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