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6.3 Assess Your Understanding

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Concepts and Vocabulary

  1. True or False In using the shell method to find the volume of a solid revolved about the x-axis, the integration occurs with respect to x.

False

  1. True or False The volume of a cylindrical shell of outer radius R, inner radius r, and height h is given by V=πr2h.

False

  1. True or False The volume of a solid of revolution can be found using either washers or cylindrical shells only if the region is revolved about the y-axis.

False

  1. True or False If y=f(x) is a function that is continuous and nonnegative on the closed interval [a,b],a0, then the volume V of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the graph of f and the x-axis from x=a to x=b about the y-axis is V=2πbaxf(x) dx.

True

Skill Building

In Problems 5–16, use the shell method to find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of the given equations about the indicated axis.

  1. y=x2+1, the x-axis, 0x1; about the y-axis

3π2

  1. y=x3,y=x2; about the y-axis

  1. y=x,y=x2; about the y-axis

3π10

  1. y=1x, the x-axis, x=1,x=4; about the y-axis

  1. y=x3, the y-axis, y=8; about the x-axis

768π7

  1. y=x, the y-axis, y=2; about the x-axis

  1. x=y, the y-axis, y=1; about the x-axis

4π5

  1. x=4y, the y-axis, y=4; about the x-axis

  1. y=x,y=x2; about the x-axis

2π15

  1. y=x,y=x3; in the first quadrant; about the x-axis

  1. y=ex2, and the x-axis, from x=0 to x=2; about the y-axis

(e41e4)π

  1. y=x3+x and the x-axis, 0x1; about the y-axis

In Problems 17–22, use the shell method to find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of the given equations about the indicated line.

  1. y=x2,y=4xx2; about x=4

16π

  1. y=x2,y=4xx2; about x=3

  1. y=x2,y=0,x=1,x=2; about x=1

17π6

  1. y=x2,y=0,x=1,x=2; about x=2

  1. x=yy2, the y-axis; about y=1

π2

  1. x=yy2, the y-axis; about y=1

In Problems 23–26, use either the shell method or the disk/washer method to find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the shaded region in each graph:

  1. (a) about the x-axis.
  2. (b) about the y-axis.
  3. (c) Explain why you chose the method you used.

  1. (a) 128π105
  2. (b) 16π5
  3. (c) Answers will vary.

432

  1. (a) 206π15
  2. (b) 12π
  3. (c) Answers will vary.

In Problems 27–38, use either the shell method or the disk/washer method to find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of the given equations about the indicated axis.

  1. y=3x, the y-axis, y=2; about the x-axis

64π5

  1. y=x+x, the x-axis, x=1,x=4; about the y-axis

  1. y=x3 and y=x to the right of x=0; about the y-axis

4π15

  1. y=x3,y=x2; about the x-axis

  1. y=3x2 and y=30x to the right of x=1; about the y-axis

308π3

  1. y=3x2 and y=30x to the right of x=1; about the x-axis

  1. y=x2 and y=8x2 to the right of x=1; about the x-axis

80π3

  1. y=x2 and y=8x2 to the right of x=1; about the y-axis

  1. y=x2,y=x; about the y-axis

π6

  1. y=x2/3+x1/3, the x-axis, x=1,x=8; about the y-axis

  1. y=x and y=18x2 to the right of x=1; about the y-axis

1177π10

  1. y=x and y=18x2 to the right of x=1; about the x-axis

Applications and Extensions

  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graph of y=1(x2+1)2 and the x-axis from x=0 to x=1 about the y-axis as shown in the figure.

π2

  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graph of y=x+1+x and the x-axis from x=0 to x=3 about the y-axis.

  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region in the first quadrant bounded by the x-axis and the graph of y=2xx2:

    1. (a) about the x-axis.
    2. (b) about the y-axis.
    3. (c) about the line x=3.
    4. (d) about the line y=1.

  1. (a) 1615π
  2. (b) 8π3
  3. (c) 16π3
  4. (d) 85π
  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Find the volume of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region in the first quadrant bounded by the x-axis and the graph of y=x9x.

    1. (a) about the x-axis.
    2. (b) about the y-axis.
    3. (c) about the line y=3.
    4. (d) about the line x=2.
  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Suppose f(x)0 for x0, and the region bounded by the graph of f and the x-axis from x=0 to x=k,k>0, is revolved about the x-axis. If the volume of the resulting solid is 15k5+k4+43k3, find f.

f(x)=x2+2xπ

  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving about the y-axis the region bounded by the graph of y=ex2 and the y-axis from x=0 to the positive x-coordinate of the point of inflection of y=ex2.

  1. Volume of a Solid of Revolution Show that the volume V of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the graph of y=sin3x and the x-axis from x=0 to x=π about the line x=π is given by V=4π2.

See Student Solutions Manual.

Challenge Problems

  1. Comparing Volume Formulas In the figure below, the region bounded by the graphs of y=g(x),y=f(x), and the y-axis is to be revolved about the y-axis. Show that the resulting volume V is given by:

    1. (a) V=πa2[f(a)g(a)]+2πbax[f(x)g(x)]dx if the shell method is used.
    2. (b) V=πg(b)g(a)[g1(y)]2dy+πf(a)g(b)[f1(y)]2dy if the disk method is used
  1. Suppose a plane region of area A that lies to the right of the y-axis is revolved about the y-axis, generating a solid of volume V. If this same region is revolved about the line x=k,k>0, show that the solid generated has volume V+2πkA.

See Student Solutions Manual.

  1. Find the volume generated by revolving the region bounded by the parabola y2=8x and its latus rectum about the latus rectum:

    1. (a) by using the disk method.
    2. (b) by using the shell method.

    (The latus rectum is the chord through the focus perpendicular to the axis of the parabola.) See the figure.