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Example Question #11 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the shape bounded between the functions and .
The first step is to find the lower and upper bounds, the points where the two functions intersect:
Knowing these, the solid generated will have the following volume:
Example Question #2892 : Functions
What is the volume of the solid formed when the function
is revolved around the line over the interval ?
The disc method can be used to find the volume of this solid of revolution. To use the disc method, we must set up and evaluate an integral of the form
where a and b are the endpoints of the interval, and R(x) is the distance between the function and the rotation axis.
First find R(x):
Next set up and evaluate the integral:
Simplifying, we find that the volume of the solid is
Example Question #12 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
Find the volume of the equation revolved about the -axis.
This problem can be solved using the Disk Method and the equation
.
Using our equation to formulate this equation we get the following.
Applying the power rule of integrals which states
we get,
.
Example Question #13 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
Find the volume of the area between and .
Looking at the graph, we see that the curves intersect at the point and is on top.
Using the general equation
where is on top.
This gives us that the volume is
Example Question #14 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
Find the volume of the region enclosed by and rotated about the line .
The volume can be solved by
where and from 0 to 1 where the curves intersect.
Then, we formulate
Example Question #15 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
What is the volume of the solid formed by revolving the curve about the on ?
We take the region and think about revolving rectangles of height and width about the line . This forms discs of volume . We then sum all of these discs on the interval and take the limit as the number of discs on the interval approaches infinity to arrive at the definite integral
Example Question #16 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
For any given geometric equation with one variable, volume over a given region is defined as the definite integral of the surface area over that specific region.
Given the equation for surface area of any sphere, , determine the volume of the piece of the sphere from to .
Recall that volume is the definite integral of surface area over a given region.
Given our surface area formula, we can determine the volume in one step.
Example Question #17 : How To Find Volume Of A Region
Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the curve , for the range around the x-axis.
To solve this problem, treat the function
As the radius of a disc with infinitesimal thickness . This disc would then have a volume defined the surface area:
And a thickness or height:
The volume of the solid generated would be the sum of these discs, i.e. the integral:
Example Question #3931 : Calculus
Find the volume generated by rotating the region between and around the -axis.
Since the functions are being rotated around the y-axis, they should be rewritten. It may help to write them in terms of y:
And
Here, function designations have been used solely to eliminate the ambiguity of using x for both functions.
Now, there are two points of intersection for these functions:
These will be the bounds for the integration to follow.
Finally, treat these two functions as the radii for two regions: a disk from the larger radius, and a hole from the smaller radius, allowing for the formation of a ring with a cross-sectional area:
These disks have infinitesimal thickness , and so the volume of the solid can be found by adding all of these disks together; i.e. by taking the integral:
Example Question #3931 : Calculus
Find the volume of the function
revolved around the -axis on the interval .
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The formula for the volume of the region revolved around the x-axis on the interval is given as
where .
As such,
.
When taking the integral, we will use the inverse power rule which states,
.
Applying this rule we get
.
And by the corollary of the First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
.
As such, the volume is
cubic units.
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