How Do You Calculate the Surface Integral of a Cylinder?

[hhhmortal]

Homework Statement

I’m trying to integrate the surface of a cylinder.
I know when integrating the surface of a cylinder the surface element is:
ρdØdz

Where ρ² + z² = r²


And for a sphere it is:
r²sinθdθdØ


In a sphere r=ρ

But in a cylinder when I’m integrating its surface, could it be written as:



(r² - z² )½ . dθ.dz

For example ∫∫zdS over a cylinder from 0<z<5 and 0<Ø<2π

Would it be:

∫∫z. (r² - z² )½ . dθ.dz ?

 

[HallsofIvy]

You seem to be confusing "\rho" and "r". In spherical coordinates, \rho is the straight line distance from the origin to a point. In cylindrical coordinates, "r" is the same as in polar coordinates- the straight line distance from the origin to a point in the xy-plane. In three dimensional cylindrical coordinates r is the distance from the origin to t he point (x,y,0) directly "below" the point (x,y,z). The "differential of area", on the surface of a sphere of (fixed) radius r, is r d\theta dz where r is a constant. I can see no reason to introduce "(\rho^2- z^2)^{1/2}".