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Question 03 |
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Long Problem. Show your work. No credit will be given for the answer without the correct accompanying work. Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the finite region bounded by and about the x-axis. It will be useful to sketch the region first. |
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How can we express the volume generated by rotating a single function, , around the x-axis? |
Hint 2 |
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If we think of the volume generated by each function separately, how can we isolate the volume between the functions? |
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The given region is the following:.
Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. We can find the bounds of the region by finding the intersection points of two graphs. By substituting into , we have Thus, at and , the two functions intersect and therefore the region to generate volume is bounded on . We will compute the volume of the region by determining the volume generated by the wider function () on its own and subtracting the volume generated by the narrower function (). For a general function given by on , we think of the volume generated around the x-axis by integrating small cylinders with height and radius . The volume generated by this is For the function , we need to write this as to get . The volume generated by this first function is therefore For the second function the volume generated is Therefore, the volume generated by the region between these two functions is |