Math 21a Integrals in Cylindrical & Spherical Coordinates Fall, 2009

1 Using cylindrical coordinates, evaluate the integral

x
2
+ y
2
dV , where E is the solid in
the rst octant inside the cylinder x
2
+ y
2
= 16 and below the plane z = 3.

3
0

/2
0

4
0
r
2
dr d dz = 32
.
2 Sketch the solid whose volume is given by the integral

/2
0

2
0

9r
2
0
r dz dr d, and evaluate
the integral.
The solid is the shape of a quarter of a bullet. The integral equals 7.
3 Use spherical coordinates to evaluate

E
z dV , where E lies between the spheres x
2
+y
2
+z
2
=
1 and x
2
+ y
2
+ z
2
= 4 in the quarter-space where y 0 and z 0.
The integral to evaluate is

/2
0

2
1

2
cos sin d d d =
7
6
.
4 Use spherical coordinates to set up a triple integral expressing the volume of the ice-cream
cone, which is the solid lying above the cone = /4 and below the sphere = cos .
Evaluate it.

/4
0

2
0

cos
0

2
sin d d d =

8
.
5 Sketch the region of integration for

1
0

1x
2
0

2x
2
y
2

x
2
+y
2
xy dz dy dx,
and evaluate the integral by changing to an appropriate coordinate system.
The region looks a bit like a quarter of the ice-cream cone region from the previous problem,
where now the spherical portion has radius

2 and is centered at the origin. In spherical

coordinates, we get

/4
0

/2
0

2
0

4
cos sin sin
3
d d d =
1
15
(4

2 5).
6 Use an appropriate coordinate system to nd the mass and center of mass of the solid S
bounded by the paraboloid z = 4x
2
+ 4y
2
and the plane z = a (a > 0) if S has constant
density c.
(The center of mass is the point given by
(x, y, z) =

S
x dV

S
dV
,

S
y dV

S
dV
,

S
z dV

S
dV

;
recall that the numerators in this expression are just the mass of S.)
We use cylindrical coordinates to evaluate the mass

E
c dV =

a/2
0

2
0

a
4r
2
cr dz d dr =
a
2
c
8
.
The center of mass lies along the z-axis by symmetry, so it lies at the point (x, y, z) = (0, 0, z)
where
z =
8
a
2
c

E
cz dV =
2
3
a.