Solution

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For the scalar surface integral over an obliquely cut cylinder, split the scalar surface integral into the curved cylinder and its two planar caps. Write , so the solid has and . On the curved cylinder, use the parametrization
The surface area element follows from
Consequently the curved contribution is
On either cap , the surface area element is over a radius-two disk. The lower cap has and the upper cap has . Thus
and the complete scalar surface integral is
The surface area element is unsigned: opposite outward normals on the caps do not introduce extra minus signs.
Figure 1.
Original sketch of the solid inside the cylinder between two parallel sloping caps
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