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Andrea94
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I am currently reading Young & Freedmans textbook on physics as part of a university course, and I've noticed that they repeatedly represent surface integrals (which are double integrals) as single integrals.
For instance, they symbolically represent the magnetic flux through a surface as:
[tex]\int \vec{\textbf{B}} \cdot d\vec{\textbf{A}}[/tex]
However, I suspected that this should in fact be a double integral (since the domain of integration is a surface), and indeed on Wikipedia they write the magnetic flux through a surface as:
[tex]\iint\vec{\textbf{B}} \cdot d\vec{\textbf{A}}[/tex]
My question is, which representation is the right and why? Are they both right and we are supposed to implicitly understand that the single integral should be evaluated as a double integral since we have a surface area element?
For instance, they symbolically represent the magnetic flux through a surface as:
[tex]\int \vec{\textbf{B}} \cdot d\vec{\textbf{A}}[/tex]
However, I suspected that this should in fact be a double integral (since the domain of integration is a surface), and indeed on Wikipedia they write the magnetic flux through a surface as:
[tex]\iint\vec{\textbf{B}} \cdot d\vec{\textbf{A}}[/tex]
My question is, which representation is the right and why? Are they both right and we are supposed to implicitly understand that the single integral should be evaluated as a double integral since we have a surface area element?