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Chapter 16: Vector Calculus
88 problems · 0 figures16.2.1 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the line segment from to .
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16.2.2 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the line segment from to .
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16.2.3 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the line segment from to .
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Compute along the top half of the unit circle, from to .
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16.2.5 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the line segment , .
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16.2.6 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the line segment , .
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16.2.7 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , , .
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16.2.8 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , .
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16.2.9 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , .
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16.2.10 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the path from to to using straight line segments.
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16.2.11 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , .
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16.2.12 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , .
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16.2.13 §16.2 source ↗
Compute along the curve , .
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16.2.14 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves from to along the path , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.15 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves along the line segment from to , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.16 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves along the parabola , , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.17 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves along the line segment from to , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.18 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves along the curve , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.19 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves from to along the path , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.2.20 §16.2 source ↗
An object moves from to along the path , subject to the force . Find the work done.
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16.3.1 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.2 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.3 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.4 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.6 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.7 §16.3 source ↗
Find an so that , or explain why there is no such .
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16.3.8 §16.3 source ↗
Evaluate where is the part of the curve from to .
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Let . Find the work done by this force field on an object that moves from to .
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16.3.10 §16.3 source ↗
Let . Find the work done by this force field on an object that moves from to .
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16.3.11 §16.3 source ↗
Let Find the work done by this force field on an object that moves from to .
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16.4.1 §16.4 source ↗
Compute , where is described by , .
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16.4.2 §16.4 source ↗
Compute , where is described by , .
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16.4.3 §16.4 source ↗
Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by , .
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16.4.7 §16.4 source ↗
Compute , where is described by , .
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16.4.8 §16.4 source ↗
Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by , .
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Compute , where is described by .
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Compute , where is described by .
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16.4.13 §16.4 source ↗
Evaluate , where is the boundary of the triangle with vertices , , and oriented counter-clockwise.
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16.5.1 §16.5 source ↗
Let and let be given by , . Compute and .
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Let and let be given by , . Compute and .
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Let and let be given by , . Compute and .
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Let and let be given by , . Compute and .
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Let and let be given by . Compute and .
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Let and let be given by . Compute and .
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16.6.3 §16.6 source ↗
Find the area of the portion of in the first octant.
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Find the area of the portion of inside .
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Find the area of that lies below .
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Find the area of that lies below .
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Find the area of the portion of that lies in the first octant.
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Find the area of the portion of that lies above , .
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Find the area of that lies inside .
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Find the area of that lies inside .
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Find the area of that lies above the interior of the circle given in polar coordinates by .
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16.6.12 §16.6 source ↗
Find the area of the cone that lies above the interior of the circle given in polar coordinates by .
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16.6.13 §16.6 source ↗
Find the area of the plane that lies over a region with area .
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Find the area of the cone that lies over a region with area .
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Find the area of the cylinder that lies inside the cylinder .
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16.7.1 §16.7 source ↗
Find the center of mass of an object that occupies the upper hemisphere of and has density .
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Find the center of mass of an object that occupies the surface , , and has density .
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Find the center of mass of an object that occupies the surface , and has density .
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16.7.4 §16.7 source ↗
Find the centroid of the surface of a right circular cone of height and base radius , not including the base.
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16.7.5 §16.7 source ↗
Evaluate , where is given by , , , oriented up.
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Evaluate , where is given by , , , oriented up.
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Evaluate , where is given by , , oriented up.
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Evaluate , where is given by , , , oriented up.
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Evaluate , where is given by , , , oriented up.
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Evaluate , where is given by , , oriented up.
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16.7.11 §16.7 source ↗
A fluid has density 870 kg/m and flows with velocity , where distances are in meters and the components of are in meters per second. Find the rate of flow outward through the portion of the cylinder , for which .
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Gauss's Law says that the net charge, , enclosed by a closed surface, , is where is an electric field and (the permittivity of free space) is a known constant; is oriented outward. Use Gauss's Law to find the charge contained in the cube with vertices if the electric field is .
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16.8.1 §16.8 source ↗
Let . The plane and the paraboloid intersect in a closed curve. Stokes's Theorem implies that where the line integral is computed over the intersection of the plane and the paraboloid, and the two surface integrals are computed over the portions of the two surfaces that have boundary (provided, of course, that the orientations all match). Compute all three integrals.
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16.8.2 §16.8 source ↗
Let be the portion of above the - plane, oriented up, and let . Compute .
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16.8.3 §16.8 source ↗
Let be the portion of inside , oriented up, and let . Compute .
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Compute , where is the unit circle oriented counter-clockwise.
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Let be the portion of over a region in the - plane that has area , oriented up, and let . Compute .
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16.9.1 §16.9 source ↗
Using and the region bounded by , , and , compute both integrals from the Divergence Theorem.
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16.9.2 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the volume described by , , , and . Compute .
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16.9.3 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the volume described by , , , and . Compute .
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16.9.4 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the volume described by , , , and . Compute .
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16.9.5 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the volume described by , and . Compute .
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16.9.6 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the hemisphere described by , and . Compute .
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16.9.7 §16.9 source ↗
Let be the volume described by , , and . Compute .
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Let be the solid cone above the - plane and inside , and . Compute .
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Exercises and answers are adapted from Calculus: Early Transcendentals by David Guichard and friends, which is free to read and download, and are used under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. They are taken from the book’s online edition and set for the web, so they may differ slightly from the printed page. This adaptation is released under the same licence and is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by David Guichard or Whitman College. The book was first written by David Guichard. Its chapters 1–9 modify and expand notes by Neal Koblitz of the University of Washington; it includes exercises and examples from H. Jerome Keisler’s Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals, from which its chapter on differential equations is largely derived, and some exercises from the OpenStax Calculus books; and Albert Schueller, Barry Balof and Mike Wills contributed additional material.