Surface Integrals
This lab will challenge us to compute the amount of "flux" that passes through
two-dimensional surfaces in 3-space. You can think of flux as the
amount of fluid that passes through the boundary of some region in space.
In the example we will study here, the vector field is
an electric field created by two point charges, one positively charged
and one negatively charged. The flux of this field may
be thought of as the intensity
of the electric field. Thus the amount of flux through a region tells
us how intense the electric field is in that region.
You will need to invoke Maple for this lab.
Outline
Next: Electromagnetic Potentials
Robert E. Thurman<thurman@geom.umn.edu>
Document Created: Fri Mar 31 1995
Last modified: Mon Apr 14 11:25:03 1997