Example: Flux Across a Surface

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Section 6.4 Example: Flux Across a Surface

We've seen the Flux Across a Curve back in Section 2.7. That was true for 2D vector fields. Now we upgrade to 3D vector fields and Flux Across a Surface. Before watching, can you guess how we will define this based on analogy with the 2D case?

Learning Objectives:

Compute the Flux across a surface via

Deciding to describe the surface parametrically or implicitly
Computing out the components of the formula
Evaluating the resulting double integral

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Section 6.4 Example: Flux Across a Surface