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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 1 1 b Solution by
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The divergence is . Over the cube , each squared-coordinate term has integral , while the other two coordinate integrals have length one. ThusCompute the surface flux separately. On , the outward normal is and , giving flux . On , the normal is , so , again giving . The two faces similarly give each, and the two faces give each. All six face integrals therefore giveThe independently evaluated values agree, verifying the divergence theorem for this field and cube.
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