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    Calculating Surfaces of Intersecting Cylinders

    Anyway, thanks. It's such a good site and later i want to contribute,too.
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    Calculating Surfaces of Intersecting Cylinders

    We can solve these equations together for z and x(we need two parameters): z = y or z = -y & x = sqrt(1 - y^2) or x = -sqrt(1 - y^2) . The surface area can be formulized as (integral) z ds. Here ds = sqrt (1 + (dx/dy)^2) dy. Since (dx/dy)^2 = (y^2) / (1 - y^2), we get ds = 1 / sqrt(1 -...
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    Calculating Surfaces of Intersecting Cylinders

    1. Homework Statement Find the surface area of the region common to the intersecting cylinders x^2 + y^2 = 1 and x^2 + z^2 = 1. 2. Homework Equations 3. The Attempt at a Solution I know that the answer is 16 but why? How can we parametrize this surfaces? The...
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    Application of Stokes' Theorem

    Okay, i got it. The normal to the plane is n=(1,0,-1) but we need an outward normal so we take n=(-1,0,1). We get (3,2,1)(-1,0,1) = -2. Projection onto xy-plane is a circle whose area is 4*Pi and multiplying it by -2 we obtain 8*Pi.
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    Application of Stokes' Theorem

    Homework Statement Solve the following question by using Stokes' Theorem. (Line integral on C) 2zdx + xdy + 3ydz = ? where C is the ellipse formed by z = x, x^2 + y^2 = 4. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution We have the vector A=(2z,x,3y) which is cont...
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