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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics V resit Question 2 a iii Solution by
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Apply the divergence theorem to , using ii. Because the vector is constant, it can be taken outside both integrals:This holds for every , in particular each of the three Cartesian basis vectors. Equality of the three components proves the gradient volume-to-boundary identityIt suffices that be a continuously differentiable function on a neighbourhood of the closure of .
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