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Mathematical Expression Editor
Consider the octahedron with vertices: Let this octahedron be oriented with
outward pointing normal vectors. Compute the flux of the field across the surface of
the octahedron.
You will need to compute: where is the octahedron above.
One way to proceed is to break the integral above into different integrals, one for
each face of the octahedron.
Start by considering the face of the octahedron in the first octant, call it . In this
case .
Here .
Moreover on this side, .
The calculations for the other five sides are similar.