Hints

We first note that Maple's format for plotting parametric curves in the plane is a little idiosyncratic:
plot([ 6+t, 0, t=0..1]);

Although you do not need Maple to solve the line integral of grad(P) over the path [6+t,0], here is one method to get Maple to do the necessary computations:


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Frederick J. Wicklin <fjw@geom.umn.edu>
Last modified: Tue Mar 7 12:54:09 1995