# Math Help - a double integral

1. ## a double integral

Evaluate the given integral by changing to polar coordinates.

$\int_{0}^{2}\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\int_{0}^{\sqrt{2x-x^{2}}}\sqrt{4-x^{2}-y^{2}}dxdy$

2. The integral is $\int_0^2\int_0^{\sqrt{2x-x^2}}\!\!\!\sqrt{4-x^{2}-y^{2}}\,dy\,dx$. You need to work out the region over which the integral takes place, and for that you must draw a picture.
Notice that y goes from 0 to $\sqrt{2x-x^2}$. The upper limit of that interval occurs when $y = \sqrt{2x-x^2}$. Square both sides of that equation, rearrange it a bit, and you see that it can be written as $(x-1)^2+y^2=1$. You will recognise that as the equation of the circle centred at (1,0) with radius 1. But the lower limit for y is 0, so the region of integration is the upper half of that circle.
That is stage 1 of the solution. Stage 2 is to describe that region in terms of polar coordinates. Have you drawn a picture of that semicircular region yet? If so, you should be able to see that $\theta$ goes from 0 to $\pi/2$ and, for each fixed value of $\theta$, r goes from 0 to $2\cos\theta$.
Once you have got that far, you can write the integral as $\int_0^{\pi/2}\int_0^{2\cos\theta}\!\!\sqrt{4-r^2}\;rdr\,d\theta$, and the rest should be easy.