3.II.10A
State Stokes' theorem for a vector field .
By applying Stokes' theorem to the vector field , where is an arbitrary constant vector in and is a scalar field defined on a surface bounded by a curve , show that
For the vector field in Cartesian coordinates, evaluate the line integral
around the boundary of the quadrant of the unit circle lying between the - and axes, that is, along the straight line from to , then the circular arc from to and finally the straight line from back to .
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