Saturday, 20 June 2015

Set up and evaluate the integral that gives the volume of the solid formed by revolving the region about the x-axis.

For the region bounded by   and revolved  about the x-axis, we may  apply Washer method for the integral application for the volume of a solid.

As shown on the attached image, we are using vertical rectangular strip that is perpendicular to the x-axis (axis of revolution) with a thickness of . In line with this, we will consider the formula for the Washer Method as:



where as function of the outer radius,


        as a function of the inner radius,


For each radius, we follow the , we have since it a distance between the axis of rotation and each boundary graph.


For the inner radius, we have:


For the outer radius, we have:



To determine the boundary values of x, we equate the two values of y's:






  then   or   and


Then, boundary values of x: and .


 Plug-in the values in the formula  , we get:


.



Expand using the FOIL method on: and .


The integral becomes:




Apply basic integration property:   to be able to integrate them separately using Power rule for integration:   .





Apply the definite integral formula: .






or (approximated value)

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