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7.2 Washer Method and Disk Continued PDF

The document describes the process for finding the volume of a solid generated by revolving a bounded region about an axis using the disk method or washer method. It provides examples of applying these methods to find the volume of solids formed by revolving regions bounded by graphs between curves about the x-axis, y-axis, or a line.

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7.2 Washer Method and Disk Continued PDF

The document describes the process for finding the volume of a solid generated by revolving a bounded region about an axis using the disk method or washer method. It provides examples of applying these methods to find the volume of solids formed by revolving regions bounded by graphs between curves about the x-axis, y-axis, or a line.

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7.

2 Disk Method (continued)


is bounded by the x-axis and the y-axis in the first quadrant and is
revolved about the y-axis. Find the volume of the solid formed.

1) Draw a sketch of the region to be rotated.


Indicate a representative slice
and draw an arrow
showing the rotation.
2) Identify the radius

3) Write dV (expression for the volume)

4) Determine where the slices start and stop

5) Write the integral

The region bounded by y= 9 - x2, the x-axis, the y-axis is rotated


around the y-axis. Find the volume of the solid formed.
Draw a sketch of the region to be rotated.
Indicate a representative slice and draw an arrow
showing the rotation.
Identify the length of the radius ____________

Write dV _____________

Determine where the slices start and stop ______

Write the integral _______________

Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region


bounded by the graphs of the equations about the line y = 4.
Equations:

Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region


bounded by the graphs of the equations about the line x = 6.
Equations:

http://www.calculusapplets.com/revolution.html
http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl/HTML/VolumeOfRevolution.html
http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl/HTML/VolumeOfRevolution02.html
http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl/HTML/DetailedVolRev.html
http://www.ies.co.jp/math/products/calc/applets/rotate/rotate.html

7.2 Finding Volume using the Washer Method


Example 1) Find the volume of the solid formed by revolving the
region bounded by the graphs y = x and y = x2 about the x-axis.

This application of the method of slicing is called the washer method.


The shape of the slice is a circle with a hole in it, so we subtract the
area of the inner circle from the area of the outer circle.

Washer Method Formula

OR

Example 2) Find the volume of the solid enclosed by the


curves y = x and y = x2 when it is rotated about the y-axis.

What if the line was rotated about the line

Example 3) Find the volume of the region bounded by the


curves y = x and y = x2 when it is rotated about the line y = 3.

Example 4) The region bounded by y = x2 and y = 2x is


revolved about the y-axis. Find the volume.
If we use a horizontal slice, the disk now
has a hole in it, making it a washer.

The volume of the washer is:

outer
radius

inner
radius

thickness

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Example 5) The region to the right is enclosed


by x = 0, y = 0, x = 1 and y = x2 + 1.

What is the volume of the solid formed by


revolving this region about the x-axis?

What about if we revolved it around the y-axis?

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Example 7) Find the volume of the region bounded between x = 0,


y = 1, x = 1, y = (x-1)2 +1 when it is rotated....
a) about the x-axis

b) about x = -1

c) about x = 2

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