Lecture 1: Scalar and Vector Fields Different Types of Integrals: Volume, Line
and Surface

Lecture 2: Examples and Calculations of Surface Integrals

Learning Goals:

1. describe what a vector field is and explain what information can be 
extracted from its magnitude and direction. Compare and contrast with a 
scalar field.

2. compute the surface integral of a scalar field or a vector field across a
given surface by using an appropriate parametrization of the surface, and
give a physical/geometrical interpretation of the result.

For vector fields, relate the surface integral of the field to the 
concept of flux, and give a physical interpretation of flux. 

Lecture 3 Introduction to Divergence, Definition and Examples

3. Compute the flux of a vector field across a closed surface and give 
a physical interpretation of the result when the field represents, for example, 
the flow of a gas, or the electric field of a point charge. 

Lecture 4 Introduction to Gauss' Theorem

Lecture 5 Continuation of Gauss' Theorem

Lecture 6 Differential Operator Form of Divergence - Examples

Lecture 7 Line Integrals - Relation to Potential Energy

conservative fields??

Lecture 8
Explain what an oriented simple closed curve is, and give the mathematical definition of the 
circulation of a vector field around such a curve;
explain how the circulation of the vector field relates to the tangential component of 
the field to the curve, and compute the circulation of a given vector field around a 
chosen curve. 

Lecture 9 Give a physical/geometrical interpretation and a mathematical definition 
of the curl of a vector field, and be able to compute the curl for a given field. 

Lecture 10 
Apply Stokes' theorem to relate the surface integral of a vector field across a smooth surface 
to the line integral of the field along the boundary curve of the surface. Recognize when Stokes' 
theorem can be applied and use it to solve line integral problems. 

Divergence-free and curl-free fields

Show that the curl of a scalar field with continuous second order partial derivatives is always zero. 

Explain why the line integral of a conservative field along a simple closed line and 

the curl of the field  (show ???)

are always zero; show that if a vector field has zero curl, the field is conservative. 
Use these facts to determine whether a given field is conservative. 
Given a conservative field, find an expression for its (scalar) potential function. 

Show that when the divergence of a vector field is zero, the vector field can be expressed as the 
curl of another field, which is called vector potential field.