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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 2 19 a Solution by
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The divergence is . Take the hemisphere's outward orientation, and close it with the unit disk at , whose outward normal is . The divergence theorem then gives . On the disk, , and polar coordinates giveConsequently the curved hemisphere has fluxThe reversed hemisphere orientation would reverse the sign.
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