Try it on paper first. A hint, the key idea and the worked solution are here when you need them.
A hollow hemispherical bowl of radius m has its rim in a horizontal plane and its curved part below. A uniform field of N/C points straight up. Think of the bowl as closed by the flat circle at its rim, and use the outward normal of this closed surface. Find the flux through the flat opening, the flux through the curved surface, and the net flux.
Have you tried it?
Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Plan. The flat opening is easy. The net flux of the closed surface is zero, so it gives us the curved part too.
Step 1. The opening. Its area is . The outward normal points up, along the field, so . .
Step 2. The net flux. The field is uniform and the surface is closed, so .
Step 3. The curved surface. . It is negative, because the lines enter the bowl through its curved wall and leave through the opening.
Answer: , and .
Check. The curved wall has a larger area than the opening, but the field meets it at a slant. The slanted view of the wall is exactly the flat circle, so the two numbers have the same size.
Watch out. Do not use for the curved area. The flux needs the area that the field sees, which is .
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The flux through a flat surface in a uniform field is , with the angle between the field and the normal to the surface. For a closed surface the normal points outward: lines that leave count as positive and lines that enter as negative. In a uniform field the net flux through a closed surface is zero.