Surface integral
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A surface integral is the summation of the values taken by a function, typically a vector, over every point in the region of a surface. Its most common use is to express the flux of a vector field F (such as a electric force) over a particular surface S:
A surface integral is typically solved by projecting the surface onto a coordinate plane, and then performing a double integral over the coordinates for that plane.