# Math Help - ellipsoid intersected by cylinder

1. ## ellipsoid intersected by cylinder

Find volume of the ellipsoid $x^2 +2(y^2+z^2) \le 10$ intersected by the cylinder $y^2 = z^2 \le 1$

seems like changing to cylindrical coordinates would be best

so I have

$\left\{ \begin{array}{cc} r^2cos\theta + 2r^2sin^2\theta +2z^2 \le 10 \\r^2sin^2\theta +z^2 \le 1 \end{array}\right.$

$0 \le \theta \le 2\pi$

and solving for z $-\sqrt{1-r^2sin^2\theta} \le z \le \sqrt{1-r^2sin^2\theta}$

and $-\sqrt{8}sec\theta \le r \le \sqrt{8}sec\theta$

before I set up the integrals, are those the correct bounds?

edit: I tried on wolfram|alpha but it seems to not work

2. ## Re: ellipsoid intersected by cylinder

Treating the x-axis as the z-axis

$x^2 +2r^2(cos^2\theta + sin^2\theta)=10$

$r^2(cos^2\theta + sin^2\theta)=1$

$0 \le \theta \le 2\pi ; -1 \le r \le 1 ; -\sqrt{10-2r^2} \le x \le \sqrt{10-2r^2}$

$\int_{0}^{2\pi}\Bigg(\int_{-1}^{1}\Bigg(\int_{-\sqrt{10-2r^2}}^{\sqrt{10-2r^2}}dx\Bigg)rdr\Bigg)d\theta$

but I get an answer of 0 when I check it so something is still amiss

3. ## Re: ellipsoid intersected by cylinder

r bounds were wrong I got it