Let be the region bounded by and between the two circles and . What is the value of
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The first term, ∫ ∫ R 3 x d A = 0 because the integrand is odd in x and the region of integration is symmetric under x ↔ − x .
The second term I evaluate using polar coordinates. ∫ ∫ R f ( x , y ) d x = ∫ 1 3 d r ∫ 0 π r d θ f ( r , θ ) = ∫ 1 3 d r ∫ 0 π r 4 r 2 sin 2 θ = 4 ( ∫ 1 3 r 3 d r ) ( ∫ 0 π sin 2 θ d θ ) = 4 ⋅ 4 1 r 4 ∣ ∣ 1 3 ⋅ 2 1 π = 4 0 π .
(Over an interval whose length is a multiple of π , the average value of sin 2 θ is equal to 2 1 . That makes it easy to evaluate the integral over θ .)