The symmetry between the first and third coordinates makes an eigenvector, with eigenvalue . In the remaining invariant plane, write a vector as . Its image is , so the reduced eigenvalue equation has determinant
The corresponding directions have for and for . Normalizing gives
Their squared unnormalized norms are . The pairwise unnormalized dot products are , , and , so these unit eigenvectors are mutually orthogonal. The eigenvalues sum to and have product zero, agreeing with part (a).
Expanding the determinant along the first row gives
The matrix trace is the sum of the diagonal entries, . Since the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues, at least one eigenvalue is zero. Thus is singular; the determinant alone does not specify the two other eigenvalues.
For the partial fraction decomposition, write . Clearing denominators gives . Substitution at and yields and , hence
The original line meets the horizontal axis at . A perpendicular line has slope , the negative reciprocal of , so
Substituting verifies the required common point.
Write the rational expression as and apply the chain rule:
The denominator is positive for every real , so the derivative is defined throughout the real line.
The product rule for divergence, , and the result in (a) give, for ,
This is a pointwise identity away from the origin, where the radial unit vector is undefined.
For , use the gradient of a radial function with :
Equivalently each component is by differentiating . The origin is excluded from the function's domain.
For the divergence in Cartesian coordinates, differentiate each component with respect to its own coordinate:
The third component contributes zero because it is independent of .
First take , then differentiate with respect to . The product rule and chain rule give
The function is smooth, so the two mixed partial derivatives agree.
Project the radius vector onto the - plane. The polar angle lies between the positive axis and . The azimuth lies in the - plane between the positive axis and the projection of , measured toward positive .
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Polar and azimuthal angles of the specified point in spherical coordinates
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Use the convention that is the polar angle from positive , and the azimuth from positive . The radius is
Then , while and both planar coordinates are positive. Thus the spherical coordinates are
Use differentiation under the integral sign, justified by the integrable bound . This gives
Integration by parts makes the boundary term vanish: sine vanishes at zero and the Gaussian tends to zero at infinity. Therefore
The integrating factor makes , so . At , the given half-line Gaussian integral fixes . Thus
This is the even cosine-transform form of the Fourier transform of a Gaussian.
For , integrate the base power to obtain . Since , differentiating times gives
Here is a nonnegative integer. For justification, keep in a small closed interval bounded below by . The differentiated integrands are dominated by , whose integral becomes under and is finite. The dominated convergence theorem establishes the needed differentiation under the integral sign and the logarithmic moments of a power on the unit interval.
Under the regularity and integrability conditions for the Leibniz integral rule,
The first two terms account for the moving endpoints; the last accounts for the integrand's own parameter dependence.
For a real number , the hyperbolic functions satisfy and . Hence , and multiplying it by gives
The sign of the numerator preserves the sign of .
First calculate the curl:
By Stokes theorem, use the positively oriented equator , . Its tangent is , while the restricted field is . Thus
The first term integrates to zero over a full period and the second uses .
One can also calculate directly on the curved surface. With spherical coordinates , ,
Substitution gives the scalar integrand . Its azimuthal sine term vanishes, and the rest gives , confirming the orientation and the same result.
For a smooth oriented surface with positively oriented boundary , Stokes theorem states
Here uses the chosen unit normal vector, while is tangent to the directed boundary. The boundary orientation follows the right-hand rule: curling the fingers along makes the thumb point in the normal direction. The field must be continuously differentiable on a neighbourhood of the surface, with the usual piecewise-smooth allowance for its boundary.
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Outward hemisphere orientation, its counterclockwise boundary, and tangent and normal elements
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For the upper hemisphere with outward normal, the induced equatorial direction is counterclockwise as viewed from positive .
The upper branch leaves the origin horizontally and curves upward, growing like . The lower branch shares the horizontal tangent, rises to its small maximum at , then crosses the axis at and falls toward . Its concavity changes at , before the maximum. A separate zoom makes those nearby lower-branch features visible.
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Real branches of the singular curve, with the lower branch enlarged to mark its extrema, inflection, and zeros
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