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Interpretations and Applications of Line Integrals

The calculation of line integrals arises in many physically motivated problems. Most of these involve computing the physical work done by a force tex2html_wrap_inline266 that acts over a path C. This work integral is exactly a line integral of tex2html_wrap_inline266 along the path C, so it can be computed by the methods above.





Vector Calculus
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