Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 3 11C Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a bounded volume with piecewise smooth boundary and a continuously differentiable vector field on a neighborhood of its closure, the divergence theorem stateswhere is the outward unit normal.
The boundary here consists of a paraboloid cap over the unit disk, a cylindrical wall of height one, and the bottom disk. Their joined surface enclosesThe cap meets the wall at , and the wall meets the base at . The sketches show each boundary piece and their closed union.
Paraboloid cap, cylindrical wall, base disk, and their closed union
. Details. Differentiate the field components to find the divergence:The volume is invariant under reflecting or , so odd-integrand cancellation by reflection removes both odd-power contributions. The outward flux equals the volume:The corners between the three pieces are permitted by the piecewise smooth boundary hypothesis.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 3 9C c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For , the inertia component is . Reflecting just one of these coordinates preserves the cylinder and its uniform density but changes the integrand's sign. Odd-integrand cancellation by reflection therefore makes every off-diagonal entry zero. Rotations about the axis also give .
Using cylindrical coordinates , , , with , the required integrals areThus the inertia tensor isThe mass is , so these entries are also , respectively.
