Solution

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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. Thus
Compute 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 give
The independently evaluated values agree, verifying the divergence theorem for this field and cube.

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