Area of a Surface of Revolution Problem

thatguy47

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Here's the problem:
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Here's the solution to the problem:
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I'm lost at where you get 2(pi)/36 in the solution. What is the reasoning for doing that? Can someone please explain it to me?
 
I agree with your solution.

2πabg(y)1+[g(y)]2dy\displaystyle 2{\pi}\int_{a}^{b}g(y)\sqrt{1+[g'(y)]^{2}}dy

2π12y31+9y4dy\displaystyle 2{\pi}\int_{1}^{2}y^{3}\sqrt{1+9y^{4}}dy

Which gives 199.48, not Pi/18. Pi/18 is only equal to about .17. Surely the surface area is greater than that.

We could even set it up like so in terms of x and revolve about the y axis and get the same. I think there is a typo in the book.

2π318xx43+9   dx=199.48\displaystyle \frac{2\pi}{3}\int_{1}^{8}x\sqrt{x^{\frac{-4}{3}}+9} \;\ dx=199.48
 
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. It would appear they multiplied the top and bottom by 36 in order to facilitate the algebra.

To inetgrate 1+9y4\displaystyle \sqrt{1+9y^{4}}, let u=3y2,   du=6ydy\displaystyle u=3y^{2}, \;\ du=6ydy

Then, u3=y2,   du6=ydy\displaystyle \frac{u}{3}=y^{2}, \;\ \frac{du}{6}=ydy

Put those in place of the y3dy\displaystyle y^{3}dy
 
galactus said:
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. It would appear they multiplied the top and bottom by 36 in order to facilitate the algebra.

To inetgrate 1+9y4\displaystyle \sqrt{1+9y^{4}}, let u=3y2,   du=6ydy\displaystyle u=3y^{2}, \;\ du=6ydy

Then, u3=y2,   du6=ydy\displaystyle \frac{u}{3}=y^{2}, \;\ \frac{du}{6}=ydy

Put those in place of the y3dy\displaystyle y^{3}dy

That makes sense. It confused me because they didn't plug in y=1 to y=2 into the u-substitution to get u=10 to u=145 which they plugged in on the last step. Thanks for the help.
 
I think the actual substitution is:

u=1+9y4\displaystyle u \, = \, 1 \, + \, 9y^4

du=36y3du\displaystyle du \, = 36y^3 du

They did not do the substitution explicitly - skipped few steps.
 
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