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danago
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Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the region trapped between the curve y3=x2, the y-axis, the line y=4 and the line x=0 around the y-axis.
I started by writing x as a function of y, explicitly:
[tex]x=y^{1.5}[/tex]
Heres the graph i obtained, with the shaded area being the area to be rotated about the y axis.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1429/135q3hot9.png
[tex]
V = \pi \int\limits_0^4 {(y^{1.5} )^2 dy = } \pi \int\limits_0^4 {y^3 dy = } 64\pi {\rm{ units}}^3
[/tex]
The answer in the book says it should be 631.65 units3. It looks to me as if they multiplied by [tex]\pi^2[/tex] instead of just [tex]\pi[/tex]. Am i missing something, or am i on the right track?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.
I started by writing x as a function of y, explicitly:
[tex]x=y^{1.5}[/tex]
Heres the graph i obtained, with the shaded area being the area to be rotated about the y axis.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1429/135q3hot9.png
[tex]
V = \pi \int\limits_0^4 {(y^{1.5} )^2 dy = } \pi \int\limits_0^4 {y^3 dy = } 64\pi {\rm{ units}}^3
[/tex]
The answer in the book says it should be 631.65 units3. It looks to me as if they multiplied by [tex]\pi^2[/tex] instead of just [tex]\pi[/tex]. Am i missing something, or am i on the right track?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.
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