Section 16.6 Worksheet:

Assignment: Page 1042: 3, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 22 (due Monday, 3/22).

  1. Remind yourself of the equation of the tangent plane to a surface at a point. We're making heavy use of it in this section.

  2. Remind yourself of the definition of the cross-product. You might want to revisit Chapter 13 a little!

  3. Carefully follow the derivation of the area of the patch in figure 2, p. 1040. If you understand that, you understand it all! Do you recall why

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