Written Lesson

Utkarsh Narayan
March 19, 2014
For the vector eld F(x, y, z) to be incompressible, the divergence of F, F = 0. We
have:
F(x, y, z) =
f(y, z)
x
+
g(x, z)
y
+
h(x, y)
z
= 0
This is because the partials are being taken with respect to the variables the functions do
not depend on.
For the problem with the paraboloid, lets picture it rst. The paraboloid inside the
cylinder will look something like this: Notice that the surfaces intersect when x = 9. Let D
be a disk with center at (9, 0, 0) with radius 3. Notice that D can be seen as the shadow
of S on the yz plane. We can calculate:
dS =

1 +

x
z

2
+

x
y

2
dA =

1 + (2z)
2
+ (2y)
2
dA =

1 + 4z
2
+ 4y
2
dA
Integrating:

S
dS =

D

1 + 4z
2
+ 4y
2
dA =

2
0

3
0

1 + 4r
2
rdrd
1
We converted to polar coordinates here by setting z = r cos() and y = r sin(). In polar
coordinates, dA = rdrd. We integrate through the disk, so the radius goes from 0 to 3.
Next, we can substitute u = 1 + 4r
2
and we will get

2
0
d

37
1
1
8

udu =
1
8
[]
=2
=0

2u
3/2
3

u=37
u=1
=
1
6
(37

37 1)
(a) Surface integral

S
(x
2
+y
2
)dS. So lets start by nding

r
u
and

r
v
.

r
u
= 2v, 2u, 2u.
Over here, were just taking the partial derivative of each component of r(u, v) with respect
to u. Similarly for v,

r
v
= 2u, 2v, 2v. Let u = r cos() and v = r sin(). Then we have

r
u


r
v
= 4r
2
sin(2), cos(2), 1 and |

r
u


r
v
| = 4r
2

3. Now we can start doing the

integral:

S
x
2
+ y
2
dS =

D
(x
2
+ y
2
)|

r
u


r
v
|dA
=

D
r
2
(4r
2

3)rdrd
= 4

2
0

1
0
r
5
drd
= 4

3(2)

1
6
r
6

1
0
=
4

3
3
(b)
dS =

1 +

x
y

2
+

x
z

2
dA =

1 + 1 + 4z
2
dA
where dA = dydz. So now we just need to integrate

S
zdS =

1
0

1
0
z

2 + 4z
2
dydz which
should be easy to evaluate.
For the last problem with the surface integral of the vector eld F = 5, 5, 5, we rst
want to nd the unit normal vector to the surface. Because this is a plane x +y +z = 1, we
can write the unit normal vector to this was

n =
1

3
1, 1, 1. So we get

F d

A =

F

n dA =
1

3
5, 5, 5 1, 1, 1 =
1

3
(5 + 5 + 5)dA =
15

3
dA
Then we have

S

F d

A =
15

3

S
dA =
15

3
[Area of the Disk] =
15

3
3
2
= 45

3
Let me know if you have any questions about any of the above.
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