Planes and Surfaces

Calculus Level 3

Find the volume of the region enclosed by the plane z = 4 z = 4 and the surface:

z = ( 2 x y ) 2 + ( x + y 1 ) 2 z=\left ( 2x-y \right )^{2}+\left ( x+y-1 \right )^{2}

The answer is of the form A B π , \dfrac{A}{B}\pi, where A A and B B are coprime positive integers, find A + B A+B .


The answer is 11.

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1 solution

Otto Bretscher
Feb 15, 2016

The coordinate change 2 x y = a , x + y 1 = b 2x-y=a,x+y-1=b will affect the volume by a factor of det [ 2 1 1 1 ] = 3 \det\begin{bmatrix}2&-1\\1&1\end{bmatrix}=3 . The volume of the solid paraboloid enclosed by the plane z = 4 z=4 and the surface z = a 2 + b 2 z=a^2+b^2 is half of the volume of the circumscribed cylinder, which is 1 2 × 4 × 4 π = 8 π \frac{1}{2}\times 4\times 4\pi=8\pi . Thus the volume of the given solid region is 8 π 3 \frac{8\pi}{3} and the answer is 3 + 8 = 11 3+8=\boxed{11} .

That is Jacobian Matrix right ? @Otto Bretscher

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You can think of it as the Jacobian matrix, but you don't have to. For a linear or affine transformation, this is simply the coefficient matrix; no calculus needed! For a 2 x 2 matrix, the absolute value of the determinant is the factor by which areas are changed; that's the property we are using here.

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Oh got it thank you !

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