00:01
So in this question, we have, we want an integral, which is the integral around c of f dotted with the line element dr.
00:16
Now, stokes ' theorem tells us that for c, a closed curve, this is the integral along the interior of c, a, where let's say that the double integral over a of the curl of f dotted with the normal, unit normal vector da.
00:44
So, and in this case, we have c is going to be the boundary of a.
00:50
So what we have is f is 2yi plus 3zj plus xk.
01:03
So let's take its curl, the curl of f, let's write it as column vectors, dx, dy, dz crossed with 2y, 3z, x.
01:17
So for the x component, we have dy x minus dz of 3z, so that's minus 3.
01:23
For the y component, we have dz of 2y minus dx of x, so that's minus 1.
01:31
And for the z component, we have dx of 3z minus dy of 2y, which is minus 2.
01:36
So the curl of f has components minus 3i minus j minus 2k.
01:53
Now we need to have a look at the area which c is the boundary of.
01:59
C is a triangle with vertices 2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, and 0, 0, 2.
02:15
So let's draw that in 3d space.
02:19
Z, x, y.
02:22
We've got all of these 2s, so our triangle c is in here.
02:35
And what we can see by inspection is that the normal vector of that is going to be pointing through the origin and out normally, because there is a symmetry if we rotate around the line, the line which is kind of intersecting the solid angle between the three axes.
03:04
And if that means that we can exchange any of the axes and we have a symmetry, then n must be symmetrical under the exchange of any axes, and that means that n must have the same component in each slot.
03:20
So symmetry under exchange means that n hat must be proportional to 1 to just i plus j plus k.
03:37
But since it's a normal vector, that means we have to divide by root 3, so n hat is 1 over root 3 times i plus j plus k...