Section 17.2 : Parametric Surfaces
8. Determine the surface area of the portion of x2+y2+z2=25 with z≤0.
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Start SolutionWe first need to parameterize the sphere and we’ve already done a sphere in this problem set so we won’t go into great detail with the parameterization here.
The parameterization for the full sphere is,
→r(θ,φ)=⟨5sinφcosθ,5sinφsinθ,5cosφ⟩We don’t want the full sphere of course. We only want the lower half of the sphere, i.e. the portion with z≤0. This means that we’ll need to restrict φ to 12π≤φ≤π. Recall that φ is the angle points make with the positive z-axis and because we only want points below the xy-plane we’ll need the range of 12π≤φ≤π.
We want the full lower half and so we’ll use 0≤θ≤2π for our θ range.
Show Step 2Next, we need to compute →rθ×→rφ. Here is that work.
→rθ=⟨−5sinφsinθ,5sinφcosθ,0⟩→rφ=⟨5cosφcosθ,5cosφsinθ,−5sinφ⟩ →rθ×→rφ=|→i→j→k−5sinφsinθ5sinφcosθ05cosφcosθ5cosφsinθ−5sinφ|=−25sin2φcosθ→i−25sinφcosφsin2θ→k−25sinφcosφcos2θ→k−25sin2φsinθ→j=−25sin2φcosθ→i−25sin2φsinθ→j−25sinφcosφ(sin2θ+cos2θ)→k=−25sin2φcosθ→i−25sin2φsinθ→j−25sinφcosφ→kNow, we what we really need is,
‖→rθ×→rφ‖=√(−25sin2φcosθ)2+(−25sin2φsinθ)2+(−25sinφcosφ)2=√625sin4φ(cos2θ+sin2θ)+625sin2φcos2φ=√625sin2φ(sin2φ+cos2φ)=25|sinφ|=25sinφNote that we can drop the absolute value bars on the sine because we know that sine will be positive in 12π≤φ≤π.
Show Step 3The integral for the surface area is then,
A=∬D25sinφdA=∫2π0∫π12π25sinφdφdθAs noted in the integral above D is just the ranges of θ and φ we found in Step 1.
Show Step 4Now we just need to evaluate the integral to get the surface area.
A=∫2π0∫π12π25sinφdφdθ=∫2π0−25cosφ|π12πdθ=∫2π025dθ=50π