Section 17.3 Worksheet:

Assignment: Page 1100: 1-3, 6, 11, 12, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, 29-32 (due Monday, 4/19).

  1. What's so special about gradient fields in the context of line integrals?

  2. Give that tex2html_wrap_inline129 is a conservative vector field, what are the implications?

  3. What properties allow us to deduce that tex2html_wrap_inline129 is a conservative vector field?

  4. Explain the law of conservation of energy.



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