Year 2024/2025 The National School For Nanoscience
November 2024 And Nanotechnology (ENSNN)
Worksheet 3 (Calculus III)
Exercise1
1. determine the coordinates of gradf where f is the following scalar field:
1.1. f (x, y, z) = xy 2 − yz 2
1.2. [Link](xy).
2. Determine divf where f is the following vector fields :
2.1. f (x, y, z) = (2x2 y, 2xy 2 , xy)
2.2. f (x, y, z) = (sin(x.y), 0, cos(x.z))
2.3. f (x, y, z) = (x(2y + z), −y(x + z), z(x − 2y))
Exercise2
Let f : U → R a C 1 class function on an open set U of R2 .
∂f ∂f
Calculate ( )2 + ( )2 in polar coordinates.
∂x ∂y
Exercise3
∂2f ∂2f
Let f : R → R a C 2 class function . Calculate the Laplacian ∆f = +
∂x2 ∂y 2
in polar coordinates.
Exercise4
Let the following vector fields .
1. F1 (x, y, z) = (2xy + z 3 , x2 , 3xz 2 ),
−y x
2. F2 (x, y, z) = ( , ) on U = {(x, y) ∈ R2 , s.t, y < x}
(x − y) (x − y)2
2
Verify if the vector fields are conservative or not.
If yes , determine the potential function in each case.
Exercise5
Calculate the following line integral on the positively oriented curve γ,
∫
y+z z+x x+y
2 2
dx + 2 2
dy + 2 dz
γ x +y x +y x + y2
where
1. γ is the segment beginning by the point A(1, 1, 1) and ending by the point
B(2, 2, 2),
2. γ is the helix defined by x = cost, y = sint, and z = t with t ∈ [0, 2π].
Exercise6
Calculate the following line integral on the unite circle oriented positively,
∫
(xy)dx + (x + y)dy
C+
Exercise7
1. Calculate the following line integral along a closed curve γ constituted by
two paraboles y = x2 and x = y 2 oriented in the positive sens,
∫
I = (2xy − x2 )dx + (x + y 2 )dy.
γ
1
2. Verify the above result by the Green Formula.
Exercise8
Find the work done by the force field:
1 1 1
F (x, y, z) = (− x, − y, )
2 2 4
on a particle as it moves along the helix given by:
r(t) = (cost, sint, t) from the point (1, 0, 0) to the point (−1, 0, 3π).
Recall: the work done by the force field F is defined by:
∫ ∫ b
[Link] = F (x(t), y(t), z(t)).r′ (t)dt
C a
The curve C is given by r(t), t ∈ [a, b].
Exercise9
Calculate the flux of the following vector field V (x, y, z) = (x, y, −z) through
the half sphere
x2 + y 2 + z 2 = 1, with z ≥ 0.
Exercise10
Calculate the circulation of the following vector field
V (x, y, z) = (y − z, z − x, x − y)
along the ellipse x2 + y 2 = 1 with x + z = 1.
1. Directly by the calculations
2. using Stokes formula.
Exercise11
Consider the following integral
∫
(y + z)dx + (z + x)dy + (x + y)dz
C
where C is the circle of equations x2 + y 2 + z 2 = R2 , and x + y + z = 0
1. Calculate this integral using Stokes formula.
2. Calculate this integral by straight computations.
Exercise12
Calculate the flux of the vector field V (x, y, z) = (x2 , y 2 ; z 2 ) through the sphere
x2 + y 2 + z 2 = R 2
1. Calculate this integral by straight computations.
2. Using Ostrogradski formula.
Exercise13
We consider a cylindrical box S composed of a cylinder of equation x2 +y 2 = a2 ,
z ∈ [0, b], a, b strictly positive and two discs of radius a at the levels z = 0 and
z = b.
We define the vector field V (x, y, z) = (x2 , y 2 , z 2 )
1. determine if V is a Gradient field.
2. Calculate the flux of V through S by straight computations.
3. Calculate the flux of V through S using Ostrogradski formula.