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This document is a tutorial for PHY102: Introduction to Engineering Electromagnetics at IIT (BHU), covering topics such as gradient, divergence, and curl in vector calculus. It includes various problems related to the height of a hill, rate of change of functions, divergence theorem, and Stoke's theorem. The tutorial aims to enhance understanding of electromagnetic concepts through mathematical applications.

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Tutorial 1 2025

This document is a tutorial for PHY102: Introduction to Engineering Electromagnetics at IIT (BHU), covering topics such as gradient, divergence, and curl in vector calculus. It includes various problems related to the height of a hill, rate of change of functions, divergence theorem, and Stoke's theorem. The tutorial aims to enhance understanding of electromagnetic concepts through mathematical applications.

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Tutorial-1: PHY102: Introduction to Engineering Electromagnetics

Department of Physics, IIT (BHU), Varanasi


(Symbols have their usual meaning)

Gradient
1. The height of a hill (in feet) is given by

H(x, y) = 10 2xy − 3x2 − 4y 2 − 18x + 28y + 12 ,




where x and y respectively are the east-ward distance and north-ward distance
(in miles) from a city.
(a) Where is the top of the hill located?
(b) How high is the hill?
(c) How steep is the slope (in feet per mile) at a point one mile north and one
mile east of the city? At that point, in what direction, is the slope steepest?
~ is a vector perpendicular to the surface V (x, y, z) = constant .
2. Show that ∇V

3. Find rate of change of Φ = xyz in direction normal to surface x2 y+y 2 x+z 2 y =


3 at (1, 1, 1).

4. Find the constants a and b so that the surface ax2 − byz = (a + 2)x will be
orthogonal to the surface 4x2 y + z 3 = 4 at the point (1, −1, 2).
~ (where f is a differentiable scalar function), transforms like a
5. Show that ∇f
vector.

Divergence
6. Show that the two dimensional rotation matrix preserves dot products.

7. Sketch ~ = ~r/r3 (where ~r is the position vector and r =


the vector field A
p
x2 + y 2 + z 2 ). Compute its divergence. Does the answer surprise you? If
so, why?
~ = r~r, using as your volume
8. (i) Check the divergence theorem for the function A
the sphere of radius R, centered at the origin.
~ = 1/r3 ~r.
(ii) Try the same for B

9. Find the flux of the vector field ~v = (r cos θ)r̂ + (r sin θ)θ̂ + (r sin θ cos φ)φ̂
through a closed volume bounded by a hemisphere of radius R and centered
at origin. Can you verify the Gauss’s divergence theorem?

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Curl
10. Draw the vector field ~v = (x − y)î + (x + y)ĵ in x − y plane. What can you
infer from the graph? Is the conclusion consistent with the results that come
out upon considering divergence and curl of the given vector.

11. A vector field F~ = xy ~i + 2 ~j. Integrate F~ .d~l around the closed path given
R
~ × F~ .d~s and verify Stoke’s theorem.
R
below. Then evaluate ∇
Y

(0,1)

X
(0,0) (1,0)

Second Derivatives
~2 1

12. Compute ∇ r .
~ show that ∇
13. (a) For a vector field A, ~ · (∇
~ × A)
~ = 0, that is the divergence of
the curl of any vector field vanishes.
~ × (∇V
(b) For a scalar field V , show that ∇ ~ ) = 0, i.e., the curl of the gradient
of any scalar field vanishes.
~ is a vector
14. Show that if V (x, y, z) is any solution of Laplace’s equation, the ∇V
which is both solenoidal and irrotational.

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