Evaluating a integral with a vector

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I was trying to solve this integral here but I am having trouble understanding if what I am doing is correct or not.

So the question says:

"Let $F(x,y) = x^2-y^2$. Evaluate:

a) $\int^{(2,8)}_{(0,0)} (\text{grad}\ F \cdot d\bf{s})$ along the curve $y=x^3$

b) $\oint \frac{\partial F}{\partial n}ds$ around the circle $x^2+y^2 = 1$. Here, $\frac{\partial F}{\partial n}$ is the directional derivative of $F$ along the outer normal and $dS$ = $|dS|$."

So I attempted part a.

I got the gradient as $\nabla F = <2x,2y>.$

If I parametrize the cubic function, I get $(x(t),y(t)) = (t,t^3) $. So then my integral goes from $t=0$ to $t=2$.

So as a result, my integral would be:

=$\int^{2}_{0} 2x\ dx - \int^{2}_{0} 2y\ dy$

=$\int^{2}_{0} 2t\ \frac{dx}{dt}dt - \int^{2}_{0} 2t^3\frac{dy}{dt}dt$

=$\int^{2}_{0} 2t(1)dt - \int^{2}_{0} 2t^3(3t^2)dt$

=$\int^{2}_{0} 2tdt - \int^{2}_{0} 6t^5 dt$

= -60

Is this right?

I am quite lost on how to do part b though. It's been a long time since I've taken multi variable calculus...

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If you need to do b) by first principles

the directional derivative.

$\nabla F \cdot \frac {u}{\|u\|}\\ \nabla F = 2x, -2y\\ \frac {u}{\|u\|} = \frac {(x,y)}{\sqrt {x^2 + y^2}}\\ \nabla F \cdot \frac {u}{\|u\|} = \frac {2x^2 - 2y^2}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}$

The contour:

$x = \cos t, y = \cos t\\ |dS| = dt$

$\int_\gamma \nabla F \cdot \frac {u}{\|u\|} |dS| = \int_0^{2\pi} 2\cos^2 t - 2\sin^2 t \ dt = 0$