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What is the volume of the three-dimensional structure bounded by the region 0 z 1 x 2 y 2 0 \leq z \leq 1-x^2-y^2 ?


The answer is 1.5707963.

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2 solutions

Use cylindrical/polar coordinates, since the region of integration in the xy-plane (from projecting the region onto the xy-plane) is bounded by x 2 + y 2 = 1 x^2 + y^2 = 1 .

Since x 2 + y 2 = r 2 x^2 + y^2 = r^2 , we can rewrite z = 1 x 2 y 2 z = 1 - x^2 - y^2 as z = 1 r 2 z = 1 - r^2 .

So, the volume 1 d V \int\int\int1 dV equals :

θ = 0 θ = 2 π r = 0 r = 1 z = 0 z = 1 r 2 1 ( r d z d r d θ ) \int_{\theta=0}^{\theta=2\pi}\int_{r=0}^{r=1}\int_{z=0}^{z=1-r^2}1 * (r* dz*dr*d\theta)

= 2 π r = 0 r = 1 r ( 1 r 2 ) d r = 2\pi\int_{r=0}^{r=1} r(1 - r^2) dr

= π r = 0 r = 1 ( 2 r 2 r 3 ) d r = \pi\int_{r=0}^{r=1} (2r - 2r^3) dr

= π 2 = \frac{\pi}{2}

= 3.14 2 = \frac{3.14}{2}

= 1.57 = \boxed{1.57}

James Stevens
Dec 14, 2013

The volume is equivalent to the double integral of the suface over its projection onto the xy-plane, i.e. the region R R formed when 1 x 2 y 2 0 x 2 + y 2 1 1-x^2-y^2\geq0 \Rightarrow x^2+y^2\leq1 . Thus, the volume is R 1 x 2 y 2 d x d y = 0 2 π 0 1 ( 1 r 2 ) r d r d θ = 2 π ( r 2 2 r 4 4 ) 0 1 = π 2 . \int \!\!\! \int_R 1-x^2-y^2\,dx\,dy = \int_0^{2\pi} \!\!\! \int_0^1 (1-r^2)r \,dr\,d\theta = \left. 2\pi \left ( \frac{r^2}{2}-\frac{r^4}{4} \right ) \right|_0^1 = \frac{\pi}{2}.

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