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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2019 resit 6 Solution by
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For an oriented piecewise smooth surface , a continuously differentiable vector field on a neighborhood of it, and its compatibly oriented boundary , Stokes theorem statesHere is the chosen unit normal vector, is the unsigned surface area element, and is the tangent displacement along . The right-hand rule relates the boundary direction to .
The supplied field has curl . Parametrize the plane by over the triangle . Its upward oriented surface area element is , givingFor the boundary line integral, take the positively oriented vertices , , . Their projections run counterclockwise in the horizontal plane. With , the three edges areOn each edge, direct substitution gives . HenceThe two independent computations agree, including the orientation sign.
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