Parametrizing Surfaces and Curves

[king vitamin]

Homework Statement

Given the surface:
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 1 but x + y + z > 1 (actually greater than/equal to)

I'd like to parametrize both this portion of the sphere and I'd like to find a parameterization of the boundary of the surface (that is, the intersection of the above sphere and plane).

The Attempt at a Solution

Parametrizing the surface is killing me. If the portion of the sphere were rotated so that it was pointing towards the z-axis it would be parametrized simply by polar coordinates with theta going from 0 to 2Pi and Phi going from 0 to arcsin(3^(-1/2)), but for my problem I need to compute a certain flux (i would need to transform everything, which isn't even taught in this course). The surface isn't a function of any of the coordinate axes, and spherical parameters are useless.

The curve is also lost to me, I'm not sure how to satisfy both x^2 + y^2 + z^2 =1 and x + y + z = 1 with equations involving just one parameter.

 

[chinokami]

My two cents:

I would parametrize it in polar coordinates. I'm not so sure if this is right but I'll give it a whirl.

Let:
x = rcos\Theta
y = rsin\Theta
z = \sqrt{1-r^2}

Thus we can write the parametrization as:

r(r,\Theta) = (rcos\Theta)i + (rsin\Theta)j + (\sqrt{1-r^2})k

I hope this helps!