Azimuthal inverse-radius vector field

ID: azimuthal-inverse-radius-vector-field

The vector field has zero curl away from its excluded axis, but has circulation around a positively oriented circle enclosing that axis. Stokes theorem gives zero total circulation for a smooth annular surface avoiding the axis, whose inner and outer boundary circles have opposite orientations. It cannot be applied directly to a disk meeting the axis, because the field is undefined there.

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