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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 ia Paper 3 3A Solution by
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Let . The time equations and the dot product differentiation rule give the local identityThe divergence of a cross product isCombining them yields . On a fixed bounded region with a boundary regular enough for the divergence theorem, differentiating under the integral and applying that theorem givesHere is the outward unit normal, so the sign expresses loss of the interior quadratic quantity by outward flux. No vanishing-boundary assumption is required.
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