Let be a compact, piecewise smooth oriented surface with piecewise smooth boundary, and let be continuously differentiable on an open neighbourhood of . The Stokes theorem statesThe boundary orientation must agree with the chosen unit normal vector by the right-hand rule. For an upward orientation on a horizontal disk, its boundary is traversed counterclockwise when viewed from above. Reversing the orientation reverses both the line integral and the surface integral.
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