A Surface Integral - 3 (True or False)

Calculus Level pending

Is the following statement true of false:

Given a solid with a smooth (differentiable) surface, and volume V V , then

1 3 S ( r r 0 ) d S = V \dfrac{1}{3} \displaystyle \int_S (\mathbf{r} - \mathbf{r_0}) \cdot d\mathbf{S} = V

where r \mathbf{r} is the position vector of a point on the surface of the solid, and r 0 \mathbf{r_0} is an arbitrary point in space, and the integration is carried out over the solid's surface.

True False

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1 solution

Hosam Hajjir
May 27, 2020

The result follows immediately from the divergence theorem.

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