CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
Divergence theorem
Suppose
is a vector field.
The divergence of
is the scalar
function
Divergence
theoremLet
be
a vector field defined on a solid
whose boundary is a piecewise smooth surface
.
Let
be the outward-pointing unit normal vector at each point of
.
If the components of
have continuous first order partial derivatives on
,
then
where
.
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