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Choose Any Point (X, Y) in The Disk With X X.: Conservative Vector Field

1) Choose any point inside the disk with a smaller x-value and connect it to the starting point with a path, then connect it horizontally to the target point. 2) The line integral of the vector field along this path decomposes into the integral along each segment, and the first segment is independent of x. 3) Writing the vector field as sums of its components, the integral along the horizontal segment is just the integral of the x-component, and using FTC1 this equals the x-component of the vector field evaluated at the target point.

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Choose Any Point (X, Y) in The Disk With X X.: Conservative Vector Field

1) Choose any point inside the disk with a smaller x-value and connect it to the starting point with a path, then connect it horizontally to the target point. 2) The line integral of the vector field along this path decomposes into the integral along each segment, and the first segment is independent of x. 3) Writing the vector field as sums of its components, the integral along the horizontal segment is just the integral of the x-component, and using FTC1 this equals the x-component of the vector field evaluated at the target point.

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CONSERVATIVE VECTOR FIELD

Proof

Choose any point (x1, y) in the disk with x1 < x.


Then, let C consist of any path C1 from (a, b)
to (x1, y) followed by
the horizontal line
segment C2 from

(x1, y) to (x, y).

CONSERVATIVE VECTOR FIELD

Then,

Proof

f (x, y) F dr F dr
C1

C2

x1 , y

F dr F dr
C2
a,b
Notice that the first of these integrals
does not depend on x.
Hence,

f ( x , y ) 0 F dr
x
x C2

CONSERVATIVE VECTOR FIELD

Proof

If we write F = P i +Q j,
then

C2

F dr P dx Q dy
C2

On C2, y is constant; so, dy = 0.

CONSERVATIVE VECTOR FIELD

Proof

Using t as the parameter, where x1 t x,


we have:

f ( x, y ) P dx Q dy
x
x C2
x
P t , y dt P x, y
x x1

by Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem


of Calculus (FTC1).

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