Volume of Interesting Structure

Calculus Level 4

Let V V be the volume of the 3-dimensional structure bounded by the regions z 1 x 2 y 2 z \leq 1 - x^2 - y^2 , x 2 + y 2 x x^2+y^2 \leq x , x 0 x \geq 0 , y 0 y \geq 0 and z 0 z \geq 0 . What is the value of V ? V?


The answer is 0.245436718750000004707345624410663731396198272705078125.

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1 solution

Indronil Ghosh
Feb 17, 2014

We can start by integrating in the z-direction, given 0 z 1 x 2 y 2 0\le z \le 1-x^2-y^2 : 0 1 x 2 y 2 d z = 1 x 2 y 2 \int_{0}^{1-x^2-y^2} \,\mathrm{d}z= 1-x^2-y^2 (Ignoring constants of integration.) Then, given x 2 + y 2 x x^2+y^2\le x , we can see that y x x 2 y\le \sqrt{x-x^2} . Now we integrate in the y-direction: \begin{aligned}\int_{0}^{\sqrt{x-x^2}} (1-x^2-y^2) \,\mathrm{d}y &= \left[y-x^2 y-\frac{1}{3} y^3\right]_0^\sqrt{x-x^2} \\ &= \sqrt{x-x^2} -x^2 \sqrt{x-x^2} -\frac{1}{3}\sqrt{x-x^2}^3 \\ &= \left(-\frac{2}{3}x^2 -\frac{1}{3}x+1\right) \sqrt{x-x^2} \end{aligned} Next, given that x 0 x\ge0 , for 0 y x x 2 0\le y\le \sqrt{x-x^2} , then x 1 x\le1 . So we can finally integrate in the x-direction: 0 1 ( ( 2 3 x 2 1 3 x + 1 ) x x 2 ) d x = 5 π 64 0.2454 \int_{0}^{1} \left(\left(-\frac{2}{3}x^2 -\frac{1}{3}x+1\right) \sqrt{x-x^2}\right)\,\mathrm{d}x = \frac{5\pi}{64} \approx \boxed{0.2454}

I did this in cylindrical coordinates, I thought it was a lot easier to decipher the bounds on the integrals. It was a lot of work though. Good problem.

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