# Thread: method of cylindrical shells

1. ## method of cylindrical shells

Use the method of cylindrical shells to find the volume of the solid rotated about the line $x=-1$ given the conditions: $y=x^3-x^2; y=0;x =0$

2. Look at the picture.
Let us keep things positive.
$-(x^3-x^2)=x^2-x^3$
Now you are rotating about $x=-1$
Let us shift the coordinate axes to the right 1 unit.
That means replace $x$ for $x+1$.
Thus, your new curve is, $(x+1)^2-(x+1)^3$
And you are rotating this time about the y-axis becase we shifted the curve.
Thus by cylindrical shells,
$2\pi \int_1^2 x[(x+1)^2-(x+1)^3]dx$
Note the new limits of integration because we shifted the curve.

3. once again i thank you for your paitence. To finish the problem I have came up with the following, however I feel something is wrong.

$
2\pi \int_1^2 x[(x+1)^2-(x+1)^3]dx$

$=2\pi \left[-\frac{1}{3}x(x(x+3)+3)\right}_{1}^{2}\approx-19.8968
$

4. I made a mistake. When you shift the coordinate axes to the right instead of $x+1$ it is $x-1$.

5. ok, based on that I have revised my anwser to this. Thoughts?

$
2\pi \int_1^2 x[(x-1)^2-(x-1)^3]dx
$

$
=2\pi \left[\frac{1}{3}x((x-3)+3)\right}_{1}^{2}\approx 2.0944
$

6. Don't get disks mixed up with shells.

$\int_{0}^{1}\overbrace{(-1-x)}^{\text{radius}}\overbrace{(x^{3}-x^{2})}^{\text{height}}\overbrace{dx}^{\text{thick ness}}=\frac{4{\pi}}{15}$