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Please see the problem at the following link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LiRLJf2m_dwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vector+calculus+marsden#PPA481,M1

It is problem 14 on page 481 (section 7.5).

Please show me how to do this problem correctly.

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