- #1
Telemachus
- 835
- 30
Homework Statement
Hi there. I was trying to solve this problem, from the book. The problem statement says:
Integrate [tex]\nabla \times{F},F=(3y,-xz,-yz^2)[/tex] over the portion of the surface [tex]2z=x^2+y^2[/tex] under the plane z=2, directly and using Stokes theorem.
So I started solving the integral directly. For the rotational I got:
[tex]\nabla \times{F}=\left|\begin{matrix}i&j&k\\ \frac{\partial}{\partial x}&\frac{\partial}{\partial y}&\frac{\partial}{\partial z}\\3y&-xz&-yz^{2}\end{matrix}\right|=(x-z^{2},0,-z-3)[/tex]
Then I parametrized the surface.:
[itex]\begin{matrix}x=x=r\cos \theta\\ y=r \sin \theta \\z=\displaystyle\frac{r^2}{2}\end{matrix}, \theta[0,2\pi] ,r[0,2][/itex]
Then I did: [tex]T_r\times{T_{\theta}}[/tex]
[tex]T_r=(\cos \theta,\sin \theta,r),T_{\theta}=(-r\sin \theta,r\cos \theta,0)[/tex]
For the cross product I got:
[tex]T_r\times{T_{\theta}}=(r^2\cos \theta,-r^2\sin \theta,r)[/tex]
And then I computed the integral
[tex]\displaystyle\int_{0}^{2}\int_{0}^{2\pi}(r\cos \theta-\displaystyle\frac{r^4}{4},0,\displaystyle\frac{-r^2}{2}-3)\cdot{(-r^2\cos \theta,-r^2\sin \theta,r)}d\theta dr=-12\pi[/tex]
The result given by the book is: [tex]20\pi[/tex].
I don't know what I did wrong, and is one of the first exercises that I've solved for the stokes theorem, so maybe I could get some advices and corrections from you :)
Thank you in advance. Bye.
Last edited: