# Cylindrical coordinates..

• Aug 2nd 2008, 08:52 PM
boousaf
Cylindrical coordinates..
Use cylindrical coordinates to find the volume of the solid in the first octant inside of the sphere x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 4 and inside the cylinder x^2 + y^2 = 2x

Note: set up the integral only, do not evaluate.
• Aug 2nd 2008, 09:18 PM
Chris L T521
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Originally Posted by boousaf
Use cylindrical coordinates to find the volume of the solid in the first octant inside of the sphere x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 4 and inside the cylinder x^2 + y^2 = 2x

Note: set up the integral only, do not evaluate.

The region they have in common is the cross sectional area of the cylinder $(x-1)^2+y^2=1$, thus, we see that $0\leq x\leq 2$, $-\sqrt{1-(x-1)^2}\leq y\leq \sqrt{1-(x-1)^2}$, and the height of the solid would be defined by $-\sqrt{4-x^2-y^2}\leq z\leq \sqrt{4-x^2-y^2}$

In cylindrical coordinates, we can see that $1\leq r\leq 2$, $0\leq\vartheta\leq2\pi$, and $-\sqrt{4-r^2}\leq z\leq \sqrt{4-r^2}$

After a little more work, we see that the volume could be represented as $2\int_0^{2\pi}\int_1^2 \int_0^{\sqrt{4-r^2}}r\,dz\,dr\,d\vartheta$

Does this make sense?

[I'm pretty sure my limits on $r$ are correct...]

--Chris
• Aug 2nd 2008, 09:44 PM
boousaf
Thanks very much Chris! Perfect explanation! (Happy)