A Physics Student’s Guide to Line Integrals
8 min readSep 15, 2020
There are two kinds of line integrals — those you see in your math course and then there are real line integrals that we use in physics. OK, I’m just joking. But really, let’s do some line integrals.
Definition of Work
Let me start off with the most common example of a line integral in physics — the work. Work is defined as:
