MTH101: Practice Questions for

Lecture No. 35, 36 and 37

Question 1:
Use cylindrical shells to find the volume of the solid generated when the region
‘R’ in the first quadrant enclosed between y  4 x and y  x is revolved about the y-axis.
3

128
V= 
Answer: 15

Question 2:
Use cylindrical shell method to find the volume of the solid generated when the
region enclosed between y  x and the x-axis in the interval [0,3] is revolved about the y-axis.
3

486

Answer: 5

Question 3:
2 3
1
y  x  12 x  0 to x 
Find the arc length of the curve 3 from 2.
1
Answer: 24

Question 4:
If f is a smooth function on   , then find a definite integral indicating the arc
1, 4
2

length of the curve x  y from y  1 to y  4 . But do not evaluate it further.

3

4 2
4
L   1 y 3
dy
Answer: 1
9

Question 5:
Find the area of the surface generated by revolving the curve
y  1  x ; 0  x  1 about the x – axis.
2

2 3/ 2 3/2
 5 3 
Answer: 3
Question 6:
Write a definite integral indicating the area of the surface generated by
revolving the curve y  x ; 0  x  2 about the x – axis. But do not evaluate the integral.
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