reverie414 Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Hi, I need urgent help with these 3 integrals problems ... been stuck on the questions and the deadline is Friday. Thanks a lot ! 1) For the green's theorem, I got the answer : 27.552. Not sure whether it is correct. Please kindly explain in steps so I know where I went wrong. 2) I'm totally unsure about finding the surface integral. How do I know the shape of the surface ? 3) and finding the curl function f All I know is, it has something to do with curl. Something like F = grad f. How do I find the function ? Thanks again !
Klaynos Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Homework problem? 1. Apply green's theorem: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GreensTheorem.html 2. the G = bit tells you the shape of the surface, what is dA in terms of x,y,z? 3. Is there any more information given? Take this info with a bit of sceptisism I need more sleep.
Dave Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Hi, I need urgent help with these 3 integrals problems ... been stuck on the questions and the deadline is Friday. Thanks a lot ! I won't provide full solutions, but I will give you hints. 1) For the green's theorem, I got the answer : 27.552. Not sure whether it is correct. Please kindly explain in steps so I know where I went wrong. The hardest step here is a single application of Green's theorem. You should get that: [math]\int_{C} F® \, dr = \int_0^3 \int_1^2\left( \frac{\partial}{\partial x} (ye^x) - \frac{\partial}{\partial y}(x \log y) \right) \, dy \, dx [/math] (I would appreciate someone double checking this because it's been a long time since I've used Green's theorem). The double integral on the right hand side is easy to evaluate. 2) I'm totally unsure about finding the surface integral. How do I know the shape of the surface ? Try to look at what you've got there. You should know that the equation [math]x^2+y^2 = a^2[/math] gives you a circle of radius a. [math]y \geq 0[/math] means that we're going to be reduced to half a circle. And [math]0 \leq z \leq h[/math] simply means that we take this half-circle and extend it upwards by length h. So, S is basically just a cylinder of height h which has been cut in half. Hopefully this well help you visualise what's going on. All I know is, it has something to do with curl. Something like F = grad f. How do I find the function ? Well, this is a bit tricky but simple once you've worked out what to do. If we have a function [math]f(x,y)[/math], then [math]\nabla f(x,y) = \left( \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}(x,y),\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}(x,y) \right)[/math] So, if we want [math]\nabla f = F[/math], then f must satisfy: [math]\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} = x \log y, \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} = y e^x[/math] Now, if we simply integrate the first equation with respect to x, the second with respect to y we obtain the desired result. (Be careful about integration with respect to a single variable; instead of a constant of integration, you get a function which is dependent upon the variable you didn't integrate with respect to. e.g. in the first equation we get f(x,y) = ... + g(y)).
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