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Flux Integrals and Orientation
Orientable surfaces and consistent normal choices, the flux integral as a vector-surface integral, and the efficient cross-product formula.
1. Two-sided surfaces and orientation
Two-sided surfaces and orientation
2. The cross product carries both jobs
The cross product carries both jobs
3. Flux out of the unit sphere
Flux out of the unit sphere
4. Open surfaces and lids
Open surfaces and lids
5. What orientation adds
A disk in the -plane sits in the field , flowing upward. What is the flux through the disk oriented upward?
6. The folded cross-product formula
Computing flux via , a student divides by first. What happens?
7. Reading radial flux
Why is the flux of out of the unit sphere computable without any parametrized integral?
8. Downward orientation sign
A field has upward flux through a surface. Give the flux through the same surface with the opposite orientation, as a plain number.
9. Flux through a graph
For through the graph of over a region of area , oriented upward, give the flux, as a plain number.
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