Find the flux of the constant vector field
through the hemisphere
SOLUTION:
Hard Way:
The unit normal vector to the sphere is ,
where in this case. Now, let’s
change over to spherical coordinates:
Our unit normal vector now becomes .
Now we apply the rule for a general vector field
in its surface integral through
S is the scalar surface integral over S of the function 

So this means:

We now multiply this by the element of surface area on the sphere (dS),
which is and integrate over
. Therefore, the flux is

We use the trigonometric identity to convert to:

Even Harder Way:
We do a full-scale parametrization of this problem as in Example 2 in Sec.
7.6. Again we change to cylindrical coordinates as above. We see that the
flux integral can be found through this equation:
.
Each term is calculated like so:
and everything else follows from that.
Therefore,

We substitute this into our equation:
We end up with the same integrand as before which checks
out and we end up with the same answer of .
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