2140 - Notes, Syllabus Section III, lecture 14 (10/2/95)

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Boas Ch 6.10 (sort of)

Review of surface integrals

Definition of flux of F through a tiny area (expressed as a vector dA): flux = F.dA

( dA points in direction of normal vector, for closed surfaces the convention is that the normal points outward)

Flux through a finite surface S is the double integral over S of F.dA

Physical explanation of flux: it tells you amount of stuff flowing through a surface, per unit time.

Examples of flux - fluid flow (J = rho*v), E field

Gauss' law, and an example with spherical symmetry

Reminder of definition of divergence, and lead in to connection between divergence and flux.


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