Exercises
Surfaces, fluxes and the theorems of Gauss and Stokes
Problems to solve on your own. The final solution appears with the button below each problem; each exercise also has its own page, to share with the link.
1. Normal and tangent plane to a parametric surface
Find the normal vector and the tangent plane to the surface
at the point corresponding to .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
2. Tangent plane to a Cartesian surface
Write the equation of the tangent plane to the graph of
at the point with coordinates .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
3. Area of a portion of a plane
Compute the area of the portion of the plane
contained in the first octant (, , ).
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
4. Area of a spherical cap
Compute the area of the portion of the sphere with .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
5. Area of a paraboloid of revolution
Compute the area of the portion of the paraboloid
with .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
6. Surface integral over the sphere
Compute
where is the sphere .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
7. Surface integral over the cylinder
Compute
where is the lateral surface of the cylinder with .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
8. Computing divergence and curl
Compute the divergence and the curl of the field
at the point .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
9. Solenoidal field with a parameter
Find such that the field
is solenoidal.
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
10. Flux through a disk
Compute the flux of the field
through the disk in the plane , oriented upward.
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
11. Flux out of the sphere with the divergence theorem
Compute the outward flux of the field
through the sphere .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
12. Flux out of the cube with the divergence theorem
Compute the outward flux of the field
through the cube .
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.
13. Circulation with Stokes' theorem
Compute with Stokes’ theorem the circulation of the field
along the circle in the plane , traversed counterclockwise as seen from above.
Solution available to those who have unlocked the subject.