Physical Examples of Divergence Theorem

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Homework Statement


This problem I have been set is to find real life applications of divergence theorem. I have to show the equivalence between the integral and differential forms of conservation laws using it.

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I have used div theorem to show the equivalence between Gauss' law for electric charge enclosed by a surface S. But can't think or find of another example other than that for Gravity. The problem is that I need to find a different example to Gravity as that is the next question and I can't imagine they would ask the same question twice!
Any suggestions of fields of physics that I can look into would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.




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iirc, Fluid Mechanics heavily uses these integral theorems from Vector Analysis.