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Calculating volume Daniel Barba, Alex Walls For the final Calculus project we had to predict the volume

of a vase using integration. The project was not only about making calculations, but also measurements and woodcraft. The project consisted of getting a vase, splitting it up into sections of 9mm, measuring the circles and then creating our own vase by tracing and cutting plywood. Also we had to predict the size of the vase by using disk method of integration and manually calculate the volume of all the circles by adding their cylindrical volume. First we divided the vase into sections of 9mm and were able to get 22 sections. We marked the vase using tape and a pen. We then cut a piece of string and wrapped it around the vase in order to get the circumference of each section and divided it by 2 in order to get the radius. The problem with using a string was that it was slightly elastic and we werent able to get the tension right 100% of the times and therefore our measurements have a margin of error. Even though they werent that precise we still got that each one was bigger than the one before (as well as in the real vase). Once we measured all the radiuses of the sections we started marking them on a plank of plywood with the use of a compass. This method was not that precise either because not only were our measurements a bit off from the past measurements, but also the compass sometimes moves a bit and changes the radius and therefore it adds a bit more error to the size of the circles. When we went to cut the circles we didnt have a lathe that would have made the job easier, instead we had to use a jig saw that was hard to operate and give shape, luckily, we had a sander that helped us polish the imperfections and helped us make the circles better and it minimized the error. Because of all the reasons previously stated, the size of the circles are not 100% precise. Since the measurements were not that precise we knew that our calculations would not be exact, still we carried on and found the volume of the cylinders, the way we did this was first squaring all the radiuses individually, then we added them up and multiplied them by .9. That estimation was 1183 cm3. We then started calculating a regression for the graph, after entering all the values the most accurate one that we got was y=e(1.19199340776 + 0.0267425323665 * x). So we squared it and integrated it and got y=202.824e0.0534851x. After replacing x with 0 and 19.8 and subtracting them, and then multiplied by we got 1200cm3.

y=e(1.19199340776 + 0.0267425323665 * x)

Now that we had those estimates we needed to find the actual volume of the glass vase, so we headed to the physics lab and filled the vase with water to measure its internal capacity, it had a capacity of 772 cm3. And there was also a concave part on the bottom and we also measured it with water and got 10 cm3 so the only thing we were missing was to find volume of the glass, it would have been very hard to measure it with water, so instead we decided to weight it and divide its weight over the density of glass (2.6 kg/m3) and we got 333 cm3 for a total volume of 1115 cm3 which was close to what we had predicted. The reason why our measurements are not the same was first of all because all the measuring methods (even the one in the lab) were not so precise and these things require a lot of precision. One of the main reasons why the actual volume was a bit lower than the one we calculated was because we used Right Riemann sum, which means that we overestimated the volume slightly. Yet we were able to get accurate measurements and learned many things of woodshop, calculus and lab science. Method Reimann Sum Calculation Calculating by regression Physical volume measuring Average Result 1183 cm3 1200 cm3 1115 cm3 1166 cm3

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