Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 16 - Section 16.5 - Curl and Divergence - 16.5 Exercise - Page 1109: 1

Answer

a) $0$ b) $y^2z^2+x^2z^2+x^2y^2$

Work Step by Step

a) Consider $F=A i+B j+C k$ Then $curl F=\begin{vmatrix}i&j&k\\\dfrac{\partial}{\partial x}&\dfrac{\partial }{\partial y}&\dfrac{\partial }{\partial z}\\A&B&C\end{vmatrix}$ $curl F=[C_y-B_z]i+[A_z-C_z]j+[B_x-A_y]k$ $curl F=[2x^2yz-2x^2yz]i+[2xy^2z-2xy^2z]j+[2xyz^2-2xyz^2]k=0$ b) $div F=\dfrac{\partial A}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial B}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial C}{\partial z}$ $div F=\dfrac{\partial (xy^2z^2)}{\partial x}+\dfrac{\partial (x^2yz^2)}{\partial y}+\dfrac{\partial (x^2y^2z)}{\partial z}=y^2z^2+x^2z^2+x^2y^2$
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