PX275 - D2a - line integrals with fields
- normally, in physics, line integral needs to be performed with some field present
- eg: integral of a spatially varying force along a path to give the change in energy
for a scalar field
vector field with a dot product
- eg:
a vector field with a cross product
- eg:
,
example
- a scalar function,
, where is a constant

- consider the two paths from
to and
path
path
- for
and
- note: integral is path dependent