Dening Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

Areas of Surfaces of Revolution

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Dening Surface Area Calculating Surface Area

Dening Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

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Denition A surface of revolution is formed when a curve is rotated about a line. Such a surface is the lateral boundary of a solid of revolution.

Dening Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

How do we calculate the are of a surface of revolution?

Dening Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

As usual we divide what we desire up into small pieces and then add them up (integrate.) We start with a small piece of the curve, ds. Rotate it about the line yielding a circular ribbon with radius r , the distance from the line to the piece of curve. The thickness of the ribbon is ds. The surface area of (one side) of the ribbon is 2r ds Thus, we always have dA = 2rds We need only determine which variable to use for integration and express r and ds in terms of that variable.

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Calculating Surface Area

Question: The arc of the parabola y = x 2 from (1, 1) to (2, 4) is rotated about the y axis. Find the area of the resulting surface.

Dening Surface Area

Calculating Surface Area

y = x 2 from (1, 1) to (2, 4) is rotated about the y axis. We have y = x, which give us y = 2x Note distance from the piece of curve to the axis of revolution (y axis) is x. So
2

S= = 2

2xds =
1 2

2x

1+

dy dx

dx

x
1

1 4x 2 dx

Substituting u = 1 + 4x 2 , we have du = 8xdx 17 2 3/2 17 S= u udu = 4 5 4 3 5 = (17 17 5 5) 28.68764 6

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Calculating Surface Area

Exercises

Setup to nd the following surface areas each rotating about each of the following lines: xaxis, y axis, x = 3, x = 5, y = 10, y = 8 DO NOT INTEGRATE. 1 y = x + x, 1 x 3
2 3 4

x = 2y 3 y 2 + 5, 0 y 4 x = 2 sin(t), y = t 2 + t, 0 t 1
x2 9

y2 4

= 1,

use x = 3 cos(), y = 2 sin()