Math 252 Lecture 35: Friday, March 26th 1999.

Because many students were having difficulty doing the problems from section 4.10, today's homework deadline was extended until 6:00 PM, and I spent the first part of the lecture showing how to solve these kind of problems.

I started with showing how to solve section 4.10 #2 [Transparancy 0a], involving a time-independent vector field and the flux through a square moving with constant velocity up the z-axis. We verify that the flux transport theorem is valid [Transparancy 0b].

Next, I showed how to work out the left-hand side of the flux transport theorem for section 4.10 #3. This is one of the problems on homework assignment #09. It involves a time-independent vector field and the flux through a square rotating with constant angular velocity. We show that the flux is sinusoidal with time [Transparancy 0c]. The right-hand side of the flux transport theorem is left for the student to work out.

Continuing with Wednesday's lecture on Green's formulas, we looked at a generalization of the 3rd Green formula to having the origin at a vector R instead of (0,0,0) [Transparancy 1]. The integrals are now over "primed" coordinates, and the del operator is also over the primed coordinates.

Taking the Laplacian of this expression, and using Lemma 5.3 to get rid of some terms, we end up with Lemma 5.4 [Transparancy 2].

A differential version of this lemma can be obtained by using the Dirac Delta Function, which is defined to be zero everywhere except when its argument is the zero vector, at which point it becomes infinite. However, the integral of the Dirac Delta Function over all space is 1. More about this next lecture...

Here are the scanned-in transparancies, in full-colour JPEG format:

(You will find two versions -- a "screen" version, which is 400 pixels wide and a corresponding number of pixels long, at a resolution of 100 by 100 dots per inch, and a "print" version, which is generally between 8 and 8.5 inches wide and up to 11 inches long, also at a resolution of 100 by 100 dots per inch. The screen versions generally have a file size of between 70 and 95 K, which downloads reltively quickly. The print versions generally have a file size of between 170 and 240 K, which takes a bit longer to download.)


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