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Opposite parametrizations preserve area and negate flux
Example
The parametrizations and of the horizontal unit square both give area . For the constant field , their fluxes are and respectively.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The two maps on and the coordinate swap , so .
Regular reparametrization leaves area unchanged and negates flux when it reverses orientation (Surface area and scalar surface integrals are invariant under regular reparametrization, Flux is invariant under orientation-preserving reparametrization and changes sign under reversal).
A regular patch has nonzero parameter cross product in the interior and no interior parameter point shares its image with a distinct point of the parameter region (Regular parametrized surface patches on compact Jordan parameter regions).
The area of a regular patch is with , and the flux of a continuous field in the orientation induced by is , the cross product being given by the coordinate formula (Surface area and scalar surface integrals on a regular patch, The surface area density is the norm of the cross product of the parameter tangents, Unit normal fields, orientations, and flux through a regular surface patch, The cross product in ).
Verification
The derivatives of are and , with cross product ; those of are reversed, with cross product . Both maps meet [L2], and .
By [L3] the two area integrands are the constant and the two flux integrands are and . Integrating over the unit square gives area for both maps and fluxes and .
The calculation agrees with [L1]: the coordinate swap preserves area and reverses the flux sign.
Depends on
- Surface area and scalar surface integrals are invariant under regular reparametrization
- Flux is invariant under orientation-preserving reparametrization and changes sign under reversal
- Regular parametrized surface patches on compact Jordan parameter regions
- Surface area and scalar surface integrals on a regular patch
- Unit normal fields, orientations, and flux through a regular surface patch
- The surface area density is the norm of the cross product of the parameter tangents
- The cross product in $\mathbb R^3$
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Sources
- University of Toronto MAT237 notes, Section 5.3, An Invariance Property (standard reference, not scraped)