Maxwell stress tensor missing angular factor

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Textbook figure of a hemispherical bowl on a z-axis with x and y axes, labeled Bowl and Disk, with the flat disk face at the base. Surrounding text shows Example 8.2 equations for the Maxwell stress tensor components Tzx and Tzy.
Textbook page showing equation 8.23 for stress tensor component Tzz, and below it a highlighted equation for the z-component of the force on a bowl, ending with the integral of sin θ cos θ dθ dφ.


my think

if ## \hat{r} = \sin(θ) \cos( φ) \hat{x} +\sin(θ) \sin( φ) \hat{y} +\cos(θ) \hat{z} ##
## da = R^2 \sin(θ) dθdφ \hat{r} = da_{x} \hat{x} + da_{x} \hat{y} + da_{z} \hat{z}##
So
##da_{x} = R^2 \sin^2(θ) \cos(φ) dθdφ ##
##da_{y} = R^2 \sin^2(θ) \sin(φ) dθdφ ##
##da_{z} = R^2 \sin(θ) \cos(θ) dθdφ ##
where
## \int_{0}^{2π} \cos(φ) \,dφ =\int_{0}^{2π} \sin(φ) \,dφ = 0 ##

##\overleftrightarrow{T} ⋅ da = 0 + 0 + T_{zz} ⋅ da_{z} ##

##T_{zz} ⋅ da_{z} = \frac{ε_{0}}{2} \left(\frac{Q}{4πε_{o}R^2}\right)^2(\cos^2(θ) - \sin^2(θ)) ⋅ R^2\sin(θ) \cos(θ) dθdφ##

But why in textbook give by
## \frac{ε_{0}}{2} \left(\frac{Q}{4πε_{o}R^2}\right)^2 ⋅ R^2\sin(θ) \cos(θ) dθdφ = \frac{ε_{0}}{2} \left(\frac{Q}{4πε_{o}R}\right)^2\sin(θ) \cos(θ) dθdφ##

where are ##(\cos^2(θ) - \sin^2(θ))## ?. ##(\cos^2(θ) - \sin^2(θ))## is missing .
I don't understand
 
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The x and y components do not vanish. There is a ##\varphi## dependence also in ##T_{zx}## and ##T_{zy}## that you need to take into account. You cannot just integrate the area element assuming that they are constant.
 
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