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CALCULUS
EXERCISES
1. Compute the line integral
C
when f=y-\-e x and C is the straight line joining the points (0, 1)
and (1, 0).
2. The same when f = 2x 2 + 3xy and C is the arc of the circle
x 2 + y 1 — 1, which is contained in the first quadrant.
3. Compute the line integral
J P clx + Q cly
when P = x 4- y, Q — xy, and C is the straight line of Question 1.
(Two answers, corresponding to the two possible senses of C.)
4. The same when C is the square whose sides lie along the co
ordinate axes and the lines x = a, y = a.
4. Green’s Theorem in Two Dimensions. Let P be a function of
(x, y), continuous, together with dP/dy, within and on the boundary
y of a region S. Form the double integral
It can be evaluated by means of the iterated
Fig. 51 integral, Chap. Ill, § 4 :
S a Y 0 a a
These latter integrals can be expressed in terms of the line
integral,
Ü
extended over the complete boundary C of S. Since this last inte
gral, when the sense of the description of C is reversed, goes over
into the negative of its former value, it is important to be able to say
which sense is intended. We say that C is described in the positive
sense if, the region S being thought of as a pond, a man who walks