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  • @Ali2475
    @Ali247511 жыл бұрын

    In class this made me experience something which I would define as "brain death." You're my resuscitation, Sal.

  • @panikostiritas5216
    @panikostiritas52164 жыл бұрын

    Crazy how 3 hours of lectures amounted to me retaining 0 knowledge. Then 10 minutes of this and I understand it like crazy

  • @Edgarisftw

    @Edgarisftw

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just goes to show there is a difference between teaching and teaching. Many students, myself included, learn much more from these kinds of videos with a good visual compared to a fast talking teacher stressfuly cluttering on the board.

  • @rowanyardley1781

    @rowanyardley1781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Edgarisftw also probably help that people have had that previous amount of teaching. This 'learning' essentially amounts to consolidating some misconceptions to most people

  • @IamFilter94
    @IamFilter947 жыл бұрын

    I'm so Stoked my dudes

  • @holycrapitsachicken

    @holycrapitsachicken

    7 жыл бұрын

    Turn round for what?

  • @agrajyadav2951

    @agrajyadav2951

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@holycrapitsachicken curl it man

  • @devikabsree8087
    @devikabsree80875 жыл бұрын

    This is the most outstanding explanation of Stoke's theorem. So clearly explained. Thank you so much.

  • @gabeham7532

    @gabeham7532

    Жыл бұрын

    cap

  • @lambda5949

    @lambda5949

    Жыл бұрын

    cap

  • @bawol-official
    @bawol-official2 жыл бұрын

    My final exam is in a week, I just got assigned homework for the sections on Vector Field, Green’s,Stokes, and Divergence theorem . Pray for me.

  • @sudarshanseshadri5504
    @sudarshanseshadri55043 жыл бұрын

    Hours of reading the book and listening to prof lecture and this 10 mins was more effective than all that. And it’s not like Sal had the online video advantage - my prof also recorded and posted his lecture. Sal really has a gift.

  • @coco_jae
    @coco_jae7 жыл бұрын

    wow... finally, i understand the stoke's theorem.

  • @kal5991
    @kal599112 жыл бұрын

    30% of my exam for university 2 weeks ago was on stokes and greens theorem. Thank you so much for these videos :)

  • @amandaferguson6901
    @amandaferguson6901 Жыл бұрын

    Wow I came here for Stoke's Theorem and I get an actual explanation of curl also

  • @EldonSchoop
    @EldonSchoop12 жыл бұрын

    When I took multivariable calculus, I never got an intuitive understanding of Stokes' Theorem. Now I do. Thanks, Sal. :)

  • @sbullock2976
    @sbullock29768 жыл бұрын

    Wow. The simplicity of this explain blew my mind! Great video.

  • @battleangelgally7548
    @battleangelgally754810 жыл бұрын

    Oh My Goodness! All those equations have suddenly started to make so much sense... Thanks a lot Sal!!!

  • @robromijnders
    @robromijnders8 жыл бұрын

    Sal, you're a genius. Thank you!

  • @KisekiTim
    @KisekiTim10 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Very intuitive and easy to understand for people entering the field.

  • @elizabetheckenrod2203
    @elizabetheckenrod22036 жыл бұрын

    And now I can pass my final... Bless you, Khan Academy!

  • @wagsman9999
    @wagsman99995 жыл бұрын

    Love the way Mr. Khan explains things.

  • @mmzzcc2
    @mmzzcc212 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could have seen this video when I was at the university! Thanks Sal!

  • @PartVIII
    @PartVIII12 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much Sal. im really enjoying these vector calculus videos

  • @ParthPaTeL-wm3kt
    @ParthPaTeL-wm3kt3 жыл бұрын

    This is best video about stokes theorem in whole KZread, Great, thanks dude

  • @Virtualexist
    @Virtualexist3 жыл бұрын

    I get so happy with him when the vector fields and path are in the same direction !!!

  • @epezzulli1163
    @epezzulli116310 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely Great explanation.

  • @messedup9544
    @messedup95444 жыл бұрын

    this really helps simplify the concept.THANK YOU

  • @carmelpule8493
    @carmelpule84933 ай бұрын

    I am now an old man and over 65 years ago I saw it all in this manner, The Curl is the amount of circulation behaviour around the smallest element dxdy. So if we total all the circulations on the elemental area, we find the circulation around the outer contour. This is no different from finding the total mass of a rod, If we know the mass per unit length then we integrate along the length to find the total mass. I believe that the following " activities have similar/related building blocks/ logic to produce the tacit differences. . 1. Cauchy Riemann relations 2. The Grad operator. 3. The curl operator. 4. the Divergence operator. 5 . Green's Curl theorems of circulation 6. Green's Divergent theorem of flux 7. Stoke's Curl theorem involving circulation 8. Divergence theorem involving divergences through volumes/surfaces, I always thought that students should see the close links there are in how these derivatives are combined to produce their " engineered" activity. dU/dx dU/dy dU/dz dV/dx dV/dy dV/dz dZ/dx dZ/dy dZ/dz and reduced to two dimensions dU/dx dU/dy dV/dx dV/dy .

  • @yichizhang795
    @yichizhang7959 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation, thanks

  • @sanchayadari
    @sanchayadari8 жыл бұрын

    Awesome It made my day !

  • @cmprice11
    @cmprice116 жыл бұрын

    This video made it click. Thank you!

  • @gurpritsingh2355
    @gurpritsingh23555 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely stunning video... Great explanation...

  • @chinkostik124
    @chinkostik12412 жыл бұрын

    Sal made me pretty stoked about Stokes' Theorem

  • @funkymaniak
    @funkymaniak8 жыл бұрын

    Absolute gold

  • @laurabeltran3746
    @laurabeltran3746 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you this was super clear!

  • @bhaveshohal3390
    @bhaveshohal33905 жыл бұрын

    That was so great.....Thank You.....

  • @tuanthanhtruong4075
    @tuanthanhtruong40754 жыл бұрын

    Wow This helped alot!!! Thanks!!!!

  • @astherphoenix9648
    @astherphoenix96486 жыл бұрын

    thanks, it's a good way to visualise

  • @DushyanthEdadasula
    @DushyanthEdadasula6 жыл бұрын

    Khan, your way of teaching is awesome!!😍😍😍

  • @MeshalWinehouse
    @MeshalWinehouse20 күн бұрын

    I’m on second year as a physicist 😮‍💨 can’t wait to graduate 😭😭 thanks for ur help.

  • @ananthakrishnank3208
    @ananthakrishnank3208 Жыл бұрын

    This helps. For math and engineering education, visual intuition is minimal one should get.

  • @meme_engineering4521
    @meme_engineering45214 жыл бұрын

    You've got excellent knowledge and teaching skills👍👍👍

  • @bijoythewimp2854
    @bijoythewimp28542 жыл бұрын

    My college didn't reach here. I am way ahead. I lost my faith in teachers long time ago. Sal and other youtube teachers are my only hope and I am contended to have them as my virtual teachers.

  • @larrymendel1
    @larrymendel111 жыл бұрын

    the line integral of the vector field along C is the summation of all the curls on the surface

  • @GOODBOY-vt1cf
    @GOODBOY-vt1cf4 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much

  • @AS_tutor
    @AS_tutor9 ай бұрын

    It seems like fun) Thank you!

  • @Prometeur
    @Prometeur2 жыл бұрын

    Incredible explanation, Sal is a hero

  • @moodaahmed7308
    @moodaahmed73088 жыл бұрын

    amazing mate just amazing

  • @robertmatuschek913
    @robertmatuschek9137 ай бұрын

    reasoning for dotting with N. …We do this because curl is a vector whose direction is orthogonal to the Counter clockwise rotation and the dot product calculates the amount of curl in S

  • @sandracordoba6090
    @sandracordoba6090 Жыл бұрын

    Just brilliant!

  • @rafainfernal
    @rafainfernal5 жыл бұрын

    Best geometrical representation of this concept

  • @odvutmanush3234
    @odvutmanush32342 жыл бұрын

    Omg. Thanks a lot Sal.

  • @jaswanthtalada.
    @jaswanthtalada.5 ай бұрын

    thank you

  • @hamzaabbasi8619
    @hamzaabbasi86198 жыл бұрын

    Great !!

  • @ChristopherMarkusLacapra
    @ChristopherMarkusLacapra10 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @muhammadumar9753
    @muhammadumar97533 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much ❤️💕

  • @krkarthikeyan
    @krkarthikeyan10 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic is an understatement

  • @ztitan69
    @ztitan6911 жыл бұрын

    thank you!!!

  • @AsiaCrasie
    @AsiaCrasie6 жыл бұрын

    I've got a question: in that top right diagram, what if the vector field in the middle of the surface curled in the opposite way as those on the outside (aka spin clockwise on the inside of the surface and counter clockwise at/near the line integral)? Would the opposing curls eventually cancel out and give a 0 for the line integral? If not (which the theorem suggests), does this mean that, during the transition between curls, the net curl in between the two directions gives a net counterclockwise curl?

  • @purpk86
    @purpk8612 жыл бұрын

    i LOVE your voice!

  • @tjfirhfjejUTH24
    @tjfirhfjejUTH2410 жыл бұрын

    great video thanks

  • @RawdaAHafez
    @RawdaAHafez2 жыл бұрын

    That's amazing

  • @GBabuu
    @GBabuu4 жыл бұрын

    very well explained

  • @shivamsharanlall672
    @shivamsharanlall6724 жыл бұрын

    Now this is the physical explanation of a mathematical process.

  • @andrerossa8553
    @andrerossa85535 жыл бұрын

    great. tks

  • @craigcoates6247
    @craigcoates62476 жыл бұрын

    This man is a god

  • @adityaprasad465
    @adityaprasad4654 жыл бұрын

    In the fifth example, if the direction had switched an odd number of times, the curl might still be zero, but we would have gotten a positive result for the line integral. So this perspective is neat but has serious pedagogical limitations.

  • @Citius1974
    @Citius19743 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! I've been fascinated by Stokes' Theorem since reading about it in Maxwell's Treatise on E&M (Vol 1 Article 24)...This video is an excellent intuitive explanation!!

  • @suryaprakashsahu6142
    @suryaprakashsahu61429 жыл бұрын

    good explanation

  • @AjayPatel-te4kb
    @AjayPatel-te4kb5 жыл бұрын

    Tq so much sir🙏

  • @bvarungovind7316
    @bvarungovind73166 жыл бұрын

    Intuitive!

  • @kuraignjenge4015
    @kuraignjenge40155 жыл бұрын

    yaaa this is helpful

  • @nmakarowski
    @nmakarowski5 жыл бұрын

    i love it

  • @thReipoints
    @thReipoints10 жыл бұрын

    anybody else has an upcoming exam and is cramming the night before?

  • @adhamsalama4336

    @adhamsalama4336

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep.

  • @Fiendnat138

    @Fiendnat138

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wish me luck, test is on Thursday:>>!!!

  • @Ydmaster

    @Ydmaster

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Fiendnat138 hope you did well because I did really bad on my second midterm

  • @22Tech

    @22Tech

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes but 6 years later

  • @oneinabillion654

    @oneinabillion654

    4 жыл бұрын

    My exam for calc3 in 2-3years. I'm studying this for field theory next semester. I dont know why the timetable is like that LOL

  • @SourabhTiwari62
    @SourabhTiwari628 жыл бұрын

    Crystal clear..Thanks

  • @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    5 жыл бұрын

    Okay then tell me why would u take 0 when field is Orthogonal to our line integral??? I may be late but it was crystal clear to u

  • @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Devang Trivedi Ikr, I was trying to tell him that this wasn't a crystal clear explanation, it was vague. Even sal mentioned it

  • @shivamsharanlall672

    @shivamsharanlall672

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@user-vi3pi9rf7w but it is all clear. There is no vagueness....

  • @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    @user-vi3pi9rf7w

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shivamsharanlall672 he just gave an example n I bet one example isn't enough

  • @chemmaz

    @chemmaz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-vi3pi9rf7w you don't have to understand stokes' theorem to answer your question. simply knowing what the dot product mathematically implies is enough.

  • @abhi99ps
    @abhi99ps12 жыл бұрын

    Ya, I also realised that. They aren't on his site at all. I also found that some of his videos are on the channel "sal32458" instead.

  • @PlayMadness
    @PlayMadness12 жыл бұрын

    I knew some of those words!

  • @sunset2.00
    @sunset2.002 ай бұрын

    Sal's voice is reassuring.

  • @wooobooo1
    @wooobooo112 жыл бұрын

    insane mouse control!! o.O

  • @abhishekravindra4008

    @abhishekravindra4008

    6 жыл бұрын

    CharlesWorth its one of those bamboo tablets lol

  • @lidyasolomon5557

    @lidyasolomon5557

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@abhishekravindra4008 screaming lol

  • @jeffaschwarz
    @jeffaschwarz12 жыл бұрын

    Where are these videos? I get emails when new Khan videos are posted on youtube, but it is not in any playlist on the site.

  • @andreirocks1992
    @andreirocks199212 жыл бұрын

    Maaaath! Yes!

  • @vinaychintu98
    @vinaychintu9812 жыл бұрын

    superb

  • @abhi99ps
    @abhi99ps12 жыл бұрын

    Which playlist is this in?

  • @rj-nj3uk
    @rj-nj3uk7 жыл бұрын

    what if the curl is in middle but on sides fields cancel the curve traversal to have net 0 integration of field throughtout the curve.

  • @user-li7kc3ef8u
    @user-li7kc3ef8u3 жыл бұрын

    May I know which board or the background is used to write all those stuffs?

  • @drtamiz
    @drtamiz Жыл бұрын

    Why do we dot it with the normal and not the tangential?

  • @TheMrFrontera
    @TheMrFrontera11 жыл бұрын

    Haha i found your comment to be hilarious! I know the slight familiarity. Like you were sitting in class but didnt know what the hell was going on

  • @MarijaniNyindo
    @MarijaniNyindo10 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot

  • @RougeSamurai77

    @RougeSamurai77

    7 жыл бұрын

    @Gavin Malus Well said.

  • @sukursukur3617
    @sukursukur36173 жыл бұрын

    Look through Aleph 0 explanation of this subject

  • @IHeartViHart
    @IHeartViHart12 жыл бұрын

    HALP! I have no idea what's going on! Suppose I should actually watch the preceding videos, but it's more exciting like this. xD Knowing kills the suspense.

  • @Jiwan01
    @Jiwan0112 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I'm good at Mirror's Edge :)

  • @Podotoderoso
    @Podotoderoso11 жыл бұрын

    Best Enchantress EU.

  • @abhi99ps
    @abhi99ps12 жыл бұрын

    Its already 8 days since this video came about and its still not on the Khan Academy site. Also, this is not in the calculus playlist. Also, some of these videos are on a different channel instead (sal32458).

  • @Headrum
    @Headrum11 жыл бұрын

    Your voice sounds considerably more wise in this video.

  • @nadie-qm8rq
    @nadie-qm8rq3 жыл бұрын

    I love you

  • @abhi99ps
    @abhi99ps12 жыл бұрын

    Me too.

  • @SneakyJeffZ
    @SneakyJeffZ7 жыл бұрын

    is n just a normal vector or does it have to be a UNIT normal vector?

  • @daviddavidson1090

    @daviddavidson1090

    7 жыл бұрын

    unit. That's why it has a hat and not an arrow.

  • @kamelalboaouh9595
    @kamelalboaouh95959 ай бұрын

    how come the "contour" is treated as a surface "boundary"??

  • @amarnathbr3420
    @amarnathbr34205 жыл бұрын

    Woah

  • @anteil95
    @anteil959 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation, however there's one thing confusing me. Looking at the bottom right surface, if you follow the border, the vectors on the border cancel each other out. But what if there is still one set of vectors left within the surface, pointing to the right (like khan drew it)? What if these vectors didn't find any complementary ones to cancel out with? Adding all the vectors together would thus not equal zero, although adding the ones on the border would. There are several other examples which would contradict Stokes' theorem. Can somebody explain please?

  • @benham118

    @benham118

    9 жыл бұрын

    That's not quite the way it works because the vector field on the surface is continuous and so the vectors as seen in the diagrams wont actually cancel out in a discrete sense.

  • @inteusproductions

    @inteusproductions

    9 жыл бұрын

    Munzu You look at each case separately, not to see if both of them satisfy it at the same time.

  • @foundede
    @foundede12 жыл бұрын

    AUTODIDACTS RULE!

  • @KumarHemjeet
    @KumarHemjeet5 жыл бұрын

    The voice is of salman khan (founder of khan acaddemy).

  • @agrajyadav2951
    @agrajyadav29512 жыл бұрын

    10:22 came outta nowhere

  • @NightbladeNotty
    @NightbladeNotty9 жыл бұрын

    when you are referring to the curl of F you mean the Gradient x(cross) F right?

  • @andrewolejarz5293

    @andrewolejarz5293

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @NightbladeNotty

    @NightbladeNotty

    9 жыл бұрын

    Gavin Malus ok?..

  • @FitnessRegiment

    @FitnessRegiment

    9 жыл бұрын

    Gavin Malus Khan Academy ban this guy from your channel please!

  • @FitnessRegiment

    @FitnessRegiment

    9 жыл бұрын

    are you actually stupid? I'm german

  • @yichizhang795

    @yichizhang795

    9 жыл бұрын

    Gavin Malus You ignorant racist

  • @PelycheeaceRA
    @PelycheeaceRA5 жыл бұрын

    what does the multiplication with the normal vector mean?

  • @carultch

    @carultch

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a dot product. The normal vector to an area is defined to point perpendicular to that area. When you take the dot product, you multiply corresponding components and add them up. Or in other words, you project one vector onto the other, and multiply the projection with the second vector.