Prerequisites to Flux
Students need to know how to calculate integrals on surfaces:
- GVC § 1. Surfaces
- GVC § 2. The Cross Product
- GVC § 3. Surface Elements
- Dot Product (for finding the components of vector field perpendicular to surface)
- Cross Product (for finding unit vector normal to surface)
- Electric Field as vector field (for calculating electric flux)
- Surface Element in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates (finding unit vector normal to surface)
- Scalar Surface Integrals (for finding total flux)