Is the following statement true of false:
Given a solid with a smooth (differentiable) surface, and volume , then
where is the position vector of a point on the surface of the solid, and is an arbitrary point in space, and the integration is carried out over the solid's surface.
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The result follows immediately from the divergence theorem.