How do you find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the curves y=x2, y=0 x=2 rotated about the x-axis?

1 Answer
Aug 30, 2015

See the explanation.

Explanation:

A at a value of x in [0,1}, a representative disk has radius top ybottom y which will be x20=x2

Th volume of a disk is πr2thickness.

The thickness in this case is dx

Volume of slice: π(x2)2dx

Volume of the solid 10π(x2)2dx

We need:

π10x4dx=π[x55]10

=π[(1)55055]

=π5

The volume is π5