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ahmed markhoos
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The question is to find the area of a disk, r ≤ 2a×cos(θ)
as in the figure "example-just an illustration"
I used two methods, each gave different wrong answers
- integrate 2a×cos(θ) dθ dr - from θ=0 to θ=π/2 and from r=2a to r=2a×cos(θ) ; then I simply multiplied the answer by 2.
- integrate 2a×cos(θ) dθ dr - from θ=0 to θ=2π and from r=2a to r=2a×cos(θ)
I was hopping to get the right answer using the first method, but surprisingly it didn't work, integration seems to be fine I even used wolfram to check it.
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I have another small question. I had a question about finding the volume of flipped cone "its point in the origin and its shape is in the positive side of z-axis", its height is the same as its base radius so that, r=h z=h, thus r=z
"example-just an illustration"
http://01.edu-cdn.com/files/static/mcgrawhillprof/9780071624756/INVERTED_CONE_WATER_TANK_PROBLEM_01.GIF
thing is, when I put the limits say : r=0 ⇒ h //// z=0 ⇒ r //// θ=0 ⇒ 2π . It give wrong answer
but r=0 ⇒ z //// z=0 ⇒ h //// θ=0 ⇒ 2π . give the right one
that's really confusing!
as in the figure "example-just an illustration"
- integrate 2a×cos(θ) dθ dr - from θ=0 to θ=π/2 and from r=2a to r=2a×cos(θ) ; then I simply multiplied the answer by 2.
- integrate 2a×cos(θ) dθ dr - from θ=0 to θ=2π and from r=2a to r=2a×cos(θ)
I was hopping to get the right answer using the first method, but surprisingly it didn't work, integration seems to be fine I even used wolfram to check it.
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I have another small question. I had a question about finding the volume of flipped cone "its point in the origin and its shape is in the positive side of z-axis", its height is the same as its base radius so that, r=h z=h, thus r=z
"example-just an illustration"
http://01.edu-cdn.com/files/static/mcgrawhillprof/9780071624756/INVERTED_CONE_WATER_TANK_PROBLEM_01.GIF
thing is, when I put the limits say : r=0 ⇒ h //// z=0 ⇒ r //// θ=0 ⇒ 2π . It give wrong answer
but r=0 ⇒ z //// z=0 ⇒ h //// θ=0 ⇒ 2π . give the right one
that's really confusing!
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