Volumes by revolution

Chapter 6.1
ave a bounded region that we will rotate about a line to generate a solid.

want to calculate the volume of this solid. To do so we will slice it into disks.
An individual disk would have a volume determined by area times thickness,
where area here is that of a circle, , and the thickness would be . Therefore a
disk has volume: .
The radius, , is the distance from the axis of rotation to the edge of the region, thus in
terms of the boundary curves, well call it .


Okay so the disk would have the volume:

want
to use many disks, and add them all up using a sum, then guess what take a limit as

Disk Method

lets make this pretty shall we .. lets say This should look familiar definition of an integral!
 Volume by Disks for Rotation About other
horizontal/vertical line
xample 4 the axis of rotation was simply the x-axis, or the line y=0.
xample 7 the axis of rotation was simply the y-axis, or the line x=0.

wont always be the case!

n mind the radius is the distance from the axis of rotation to the edge of the region.

We
use the above if , if not then wed switch

 Volume by Disks for Rotation About other
horizontal/vertical line

n mind the radius is the distance from the axis of rotation to the edge of the region.

We
use the above if , if not then wed switch



Determine the volume of the solid generated by revolving about the
line the region bounded by and .

find where the curves intersect

determine
each radius (distance from line )

inner:

outer:

Determine the volume of the solid generated by revolving about the
line the region bounded by and .

determine
each radius (distance from line )

inner:

outer:

Determine the volume of the solid generated by revolving about the
line the region bounded by and .