Consider the 2D airfoil below.
(source: gsu.edu)
In engineering (and maybe physics) you will often see something like the following as an expression for the pressure force acting on a surface (in this case a curve but imagine it having unit depth into the screen).
dF=pdswhereds=ˆnds
If you attempt to integrate this over a curve C to find the force you get;
∫??dF=∫Cpds
where there doesn't seem to be obvious corresponding limits for integrating on the LHS. Is it fine to consider the limits as from 0 to F or is this some kind of engineering "shorthand" that you often see which makes no sense mathematically. I am trying to interpret it as a "change in force" but it doesn't really make sense to me.
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