Lecture 30: Line integrals in space, curl, exactness and potentials

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A lesson about line integrals, curl, exactness, and potentials in 3-dimensional space.

Denis Auroux. 18.02 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2007. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare). http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed March 21, 2009). License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

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Questions answered by this video:
  • How do you find line integrals, work, curl, exactness, and potentials in 3-dimensional space?
  • How do you test if a field is a gradient field in 3-dimensional space?
  • What is a test for gradient fields in three dimensions?
  • For which a and b is axy dx + (x^2 + z^3)dy + (byz^2 - 4z^3)dz exact?
  • How do you find curl F in 3D?
  • What does curl mean geometrically for three dimensional objects?
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    The first few minutes of this lesson finish off some topics from last lecture. Then, line integrals, work, curl, exactness, and potentials are found for various objects in three dimensions now, instead of two. Again, this lesson builds on the analogous computations that we have seen so far as we move from two to three dimensions. Many examples are shown to make the ideas more concrete.