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Tutorial 5 - Scalar and Vector Fields

This document contains a tutorial on scalar and vector fields with 22 practice problems involving gradients, divergences, curls and other vector calculus operations. Students are asked to find gradients, divergences, curls and other derivatives of scalar and vector functions at given points, as well as normal vectors to surfaces and scalar potentials. Answers to the problems are provided.

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Tutorial 5 - Scalar and Vector Fields

This document contains a tutorial on scalar and vector fields with 22 practice problems involving gradients, divergences, curls and other vector calculus operations. Students are asked to find gradients, divergences, curls and other derivatives of scalar and vector functions at given points, as well as normal vectors to surfaces and scalar potentials. Answers to the problems are provided.

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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA PAHANG

FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING


BET2543 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS III

Tutorial 5: Scalar and Vector Fields

EXERCISES

In questions 1-4, find grad  and  at the indicated point.


1.  ( x, y, z )   x 2 y  2 xz 4 , (2,3,1)

2.  ( x, y, z )  xyz 2 , (1,2,4)

3.  ( x, y, z )  x 2  y 2  2 z 2  z ln x, (1,1,1)
4.  ( x, y, z )  x2  y2  z , (1,2,3)

In questions 5-8, find the unit normal vector to the surface at the indicated point.
5. x 2  y 2  z 2  3, (1,1,1)
1 1 1
6. cos z  sin( x  y ), (  ,  ,  )
2 2 2
7. ze x  2 y  3, ( 2,1,3)
x
8. ln( y  z )  0, (2,5,3)

In question 9-10, find div F at the indicated point.


9. F  x 2 zi  2 y 3 z 2 j  xy 2 zk , (1,-1,1)

10. F  ze x  2 y i  ye 2 y  z j  ze x  z k , (2,1,2)

11. If   xy 2 z 3 , find div grad  at the point ( 2,1,1)

In questions 12-15, find the curl F at the indicated point.


12. F  xyi  yzj  xzk , (2 - 3,4)

13. F  x 2 yi  2 xzj  2 yzk , (1,2,-3)

14. F  xz 3i  2 x 2 yzj  2 yz 4k , (1,-1,1)

15. F  e  xy i  e xz j  e yz k , (3,2,0)

16. If F  x 2 yzi  xyz 2 j  y 2 zk , find curl curl F

In questions 17-20, find   ( ) , (F  ) , (F  )F , (F  ) , and (  F )


at the indicated point.
17.   2 z  x 3 y , F  2 x 2i  3 yzj  xz 2k , (1,-1,1)
18.   2 x 3 y 2 z , F  3x 2i  3 yz 2 j  xyz 2k , (2,-1,3)
19.   3 x 2  yz, F  3 xyz 2i  2 xy 3 j  x 2 yzk , (1,-1,1)
20.   2 x 2  yz , F  x 2 zi  yz 3 j  3xyk , (3,1,-1)

21. Find  ( x, y , z ) if  (1,2,2)  4 and


  2 xyz 3i  x 2 z 3 j  3 x 2 yz 2k

r
22. Find  (r ) , if   and  (1)  0 where r  xi  yj  zk and r  r
r5

ANSWERS

1.   10i  4 j  16k ,   2 93
3.   3i  2 j  4k ,   29

1
5.  (i  j  k )
3
1
7.  (3i  6 j  k )
46

9. 3
11.  16
12. 3i  4 j  2k

14. 3 j  4k

16. z 2i  2( xz  y  xy) j  2( xy  z  xz )k

17.   ( )  6 , (F  )  5 , (F  )F  4(2i  3 j) , (F  )  7i  jj  11k ,


(  F )  6i  k

19.   ( )  6 , (F  )  15 , (F  )F  9i  6 j  2k , (F   )  3j  15k ,


(  F )  8i  10 j  7k

21.  ( x, y, z )  x 2 yz 3  20

1 1
22.  (r )  (1  3 )
3 r

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