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Volumes of Revolution: Cylindrical Shells

The shell method integrates cylindrical surface areas around an axis, avoiding the function inversion the washer method sometimes demands, and the choice between methods is a modeling decision verified by agreement.

1. Shells from vertical strips

Shells from vertical strips

2. Choosing radius and height

Choosing radius and height

3. Agreement as verification

Agreement as verification

4. Pappus's theorem preview

Pappus's theorem preview

5. Shell volume element

A vertical strip at position x of height h(x) and width dx rotates about the y axis. What is the volume of the resulting cylindrical shell?

6. When shells beat washers

For which situation does the shell method have a clear advantage over washers?

7. Radius for shifted axis

A region rotates about the vertical line x = a with a to the left of the region. What is the shell radius for a strip at position x?

8. Region between curves by shells

The region between y = x and y = x^2 on [0, 1] rotates about the y axis. What is the shell height?

9. Torus volume structure

The torus from rotating a disk of radius r about an axis at distance R from its center has volume 2 pi squared R r squared. Which factor is the tube's cross-sectional area?

10. Disk versus shell for the same solid

The region under y = sqrt(x) on [0, 1] rotated about the y axis has volume 4 pi/5 by shells. A washer computation must give the same value. Which washer integral is correct?

11. Shell integral for root region

The region under y = sqrt(x) on [0, 1] rotated about the y axis gives V = 2 pi integral of x^(3/2) dx. What value results, as a fraction of pi? Answer like 4/5.

12. Shell radius about y axis

For a vertical strip at position x rotating about the y axis, the shell radius equals x. At x = 3, what is the radius? Answer with a number.

13. Volume element constant

The shell volume element 2 pi x h(x) dx begins with a constant from the circumference's formula. What number is that constant? Answer with a number.

14. Two pi placement

In the shell formula V = 2 pi integral of x h(x) dx, the 2 pi sits outside the integral. As a single number, how many pi's worth of circumference structure does it carry? Answer with a number.

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