Calculating Area of Hemisphere Cut by Cylinder

In summary, the problem is to find the area of the portion of a cylinder that lies inside a hemisphere. The formula for surface area is used and the surface in the first octant is considered for symmetry. However, there is a mistake in the limits of integration for z, which leads to an incorrect result. When corrected, the correct answer of 4 is obtained.
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Homework Statement



Find the area of the portion of the cylinder x^2 + y^2 = 2x that lies inside the hemisphere x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 4, z [tex]\geq[/tex] 0. Hint: Project onto the xz-plane.

Homework Equations



I want to use the formula for surface area

[tex]\int\int\frac{|\nabla f|}{|\nabla f\bullet\vec{p}|}dA[/tex]

The Attempt at a Solution



I'm going to consider only the surface in the first octant (for reasons of symmetry). I get

[tex]\frac{|\nabla f|}{|\nabla f\bullet\vec{p}|} = \frac{1}{y}[/tex]

hence:

[tex]\int\int\frac{|\nabla f|}{|\nabla f\bullet\vec{p}|}dA = \int\int\frac{1}{\sqrt{2x-x^2}}dzdx[/tex]


and using

sqrt(4-x^2) and 0 as limits of integration for z

and 2 and 0 as limits of integration for x, I get

[tex]\int\sqrt{\frac{2+x}{x}}dx[/tex]

(with 2 and 0 as limits of integration for x)

The problem is that this integral doesn't evaluate to 4, which I know is the correct answer (I do get this result by evaluating the integral

[tex]\int h ds[/tex]

where h is the altitude of the cylinder and ds is the element of arc length on the circle x^2 + y^2 = 2x in the xy-plane)

Could you please tell me where I'm going wrong?

Many thanks in advance!
 
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I've just realized that there is a mistake in my limits of integration for z.

Apart from 0, the other limit is sqrt(4 - (x^2 + y^2)), not sqrt(4 - x^2), and, since this z also belongs to the cylinder, z = sqrt(4 - 2x) and this leads to the correct result, i.e. 4.
 

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