Using Integration to calculate volume
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This time we will start to learn how to use integration to calculate the volume.
Now we will start with a function:
We will start to calculate the volume of the function when the function rotates 360 degrees on the x-axis.
It will never leave the x-axis, and then it will form a 3-dimensional volume. We will call this solid of revolution because we obtain it by revolving a region about a line.
so the radius of a circle will be r and
and we can think of it as the volume is made of many disks and it will form this volume.
So the area of the disk will be like this
so
so what we will get this
so is a constant so we can pull it out