Help getting a representation of a curve K for a Line integral

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So I have to calculate line integral of a vector field: $\overrightarrow{F}(x,y,z)=(x+y,y+z,x+y)$

And I want to calculate the Line integral:

$$\int_K \overrightarrow{F}(x,y,z)d\overrightarrow{r}$$

And K is defined as intercutting of these two surfaces: $$x^2+y^2=1, z=x^2+y^2-2y$$

I did do a sketch, and is seems like it some sort of elipse or circle.

But how can I get its equation?

I thougth maybe something like this this:

$x^2=1-y^2 \rightarrow z=1- y^2+y^2-2y=-2y $

But it just gave me normal line, or is this all there is to it?

Are there any tricks to it. Any help with the solution would be appreciated.

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You wish to integrate over the set \begin{align} K &= \{(x,y,z) \in \Bbb{R}^3: x^2 + y^2 =1 \quad \text{and} \quad z = x^2 + y^2 - 2y \} \\ &= \{(x,y,z) \in \Bbb{R}^3: x^2 + y^2 =1 \quad \text{and} \quad z = 1 - 2y \} \tag{$*$} \end{align} Notice that if you now define the function $\alpha: [0,2 \pi] \to \Bbb{R}^3$ by the rule \begin{equation} \alpha(t) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos(t) \\ \sin(t) \\ 1 - 2 \sin(t) \end{pmatrix}, \end{equation} then $K = \text{image}(\alpha)$. In words, $\alpha$ is a parametrization for $K$. I hope you see how I obtained such a parametrization from ($*$). Hence, \begin{align} \int_K \vec{F}(x,y,z) \cdot d \vec{r} &= \int_0^{2\pi} \left(\vec{F}(\alpha(t)) \cdot \dfrac{d \alpha}{dt} \right) \, dt \end{align}

(the $\cdot$ being a dot product of vectors in $\Bbb{R}^3$) I'll let you substitute the formulas and perform the computation. I got $-3 \pi$ as the answer... there may/may not have been a computation error, but this is the general process of how to approach these questions.