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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2019 10 c Solution by
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This is a scalar surface integral, not an oriented flux. Split the whole closed surface into the bottom disc, curved side and tilted top; shared edge curves have zero surface area.
On the bottom, and the integrand is . Its integral over the symmetric disc vanishes by oddness:On the top, , so . The graph has , , giving . HenceFor the side, let and parametrize by , with . The surface area element is . ThusAdding all three pieces givesThe tilted top remains above the bottom everywhere because . The calculation is an instance of a scalar surface integral over a cylinder with one tilted cap; reversing a surface orientation would not change any of its terms.
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