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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Volume of a solid

Evaluate the volume of the solid:

$$V=\{(x, y, z)\in \mathbb{R}^3: x \in [-1, 1], \;\; y^2+ z^2 \leq x^2$$

Solution

We simply note that this solid is actually is a cone. Hence:

$$V=\frac{1}{3}\pi r^2 h = \frac{2\pi}{3}$$

since the radius is simply $1$ and the height is $2$.

One can also do this using integral calculus. We leave the details to the reader.

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