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The document contains exercises involving calculating volumes of revolution by rotating curves around axes. It includes rotating lines, curves defined by equations, and ellipses to find the volumes of solids generated.

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Volumes of A Revolution Exercise

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AQA Core 3 Integration

Section 3: Volumes of revolution


Exercise
1. Find the volume of revolution produced when the curve y = ex between x = 0 and
x = 1 is rotated through 360 about the x-axis. Give your answer exactly in terms
of and e.
2. Find the volume of revolution produced when the curve y x 1 between
y = 1 and y = 2 is rotated through 360 about the y-axis.
y=kx

3. Find the volume of the solid generated by rotating the straight line
y = kx between x = 0 and x = h through 360 about the x-axis.
Deduce the formula for the volume of a cone with height h and
base radius r.

1
between x = 1 and x = 2 is rotated through 360
x
about both axes in turn. Show that the volume of revolution about the y-axis is
twice that about the x-axis.

4. A section of the curve y

5. The section of the curve y = ln(1 + x) between x = 0 and x = 1 is rotated through


360 about the y-axis. Show that the volume of revolution V created is given by
ln 2

(e2 y 2e y 1) dy .
0

Show that V = (ln 2 )

x2
y 2 1 . Find the coordinates
6. This ellipse has equation
4
Q
of the points P and Q, and hence find the volume of the solid
of revolution produced when the ellipse is rotated about the x-axis.

7. Repeat question 7 to find the volume of revolution of the ellipse about the y-axis.
8. The diagram shows the region R which lies between the
line y = x and the curve y x3 for x 0 .
Find the volume of the solid formed when the region R
is rotated
(i) about the x-axis.
(ii) about the y-axis.

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R
x

15/03/13 MEI

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