Image: Macroscopic and microscopic circulation

The macroscopic circulation of a vector field around a curve $\dlc$ is related to the total microscopic circulation in the interior of the curve (illustrated by the small green circles).

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• How to determine if a vector field is conservative
• The idea behind Green's theorem
• Green's theorem with multiple boundary components
• The idea behind Stokes' theorem

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