Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Use the method of cylindrical shells to find the volume generated by rotating the region bounded by the given curves...

With the method of cylindrical shells we sum up the volumes of thin cylinders.


The volume of a cylinder is



where is the height, is the radius of a cylinder (the distance from the axis of rotation to the argument) and is the thickness.


and intersect at the points x=-1, y=1 and x=-1, y=1. Between x=-1 and x=1 so the height is equal to


Also


So the volume is (remove odd functions integrating from -1 to 1)




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