Because all Maple's integration commands insert the differential elements, any discussion that references is actually referencing as well. But Maple's integration commands insert the appropriate form of , so it is convenient to write (or ), where, in the third column of Table 6.3.2, points to that part of not containing differentials.
Table 6.3.3 lists Maple's built-in tools that implement some form of surface integration.
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Int and/or int commands at top level
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User must obtain and insert the appropriate form of .
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Surface area when integrand is 1; surface integral otherwise.
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SurfaceArea command in the Student MultivariateCalculus package
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Calculates and inserts .
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Computes surface area only for explicitly given surfaces.
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Admits polar coordinates.
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Surface-area task template
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Tools≻Tasks≻Browse:
Calculus - Multivariate≻Integration≻Surface Area
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Implements the SurfaceArea command and iterates in the order
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SurfaceInt command in the Student VectorCalculus package
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Calculates and inserts .
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Calculates surface area if integrand is set to 1, else calculates a surface integral for more general scalar functions defined on the surface.
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Recognizes pre-defined regions known to the modified int command in the Student VectorCalculus package.
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Table 6.3.3 Maple tools for surface integration
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The SurfaceArea command in the Student MultivariateCalculus package can return the value of the surface area, the unevaluated integral giving that area; or when , the planar region over which the surface is defined is a rectangle, a graph showing the surface and .
Unfortunately, the syntax for the SurfaceArea command is not consistent with that of the top-level int command or with the MultiInt command. For both the top-level int command and the MultiInt command, if ranges are given in the order , then the resulting iteration order is . However, for the SurfaceArea command, the opposite is true: if ranges are given in the order , then the resulting iteration order is .
The SurfaceInt command in the Student VectorCalculus package can return the value of a surface integral, or the unevaluated iterated integral. The command recognizes the Box and Sphere options, and the more general Surface option. The Surface option takes the parametric form of a surface, given as a vector. The region over which the surface is defined can be any one of the pre-determined two-dimensional regions recognized by the modified int command in the Student VectorCalculus package. In particular, these regions are the Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Triangle, Sector (of a circle or ellipse), and the more general Region. In addition, the command takes a coordinate option that applies to the vector giving the surface in parametric form.
Table 6.3.4 clarifies the syntax for using the commands with which a surface integral can be implemented in Maple. To make the expressions visually compact, the size of some fonts has been reduced, and the notation introduced.
Top-level Int
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MultiInt
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SurfaceArea
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SurfaceInt
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int
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Table 6.3.4 Syntax for the Maple commands that will implement a surface integral;
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