Rotational Solids

An Interactive Applet powered by Sage and MathJax.

(By Kelsey Norman with HTML code from Prof. Gregory V. Bard)


\textrm{This demo shows the solids created by rotating curves or rectangles around an axis parallel to the x-axis.} \\ \textrm{The actual area is calculated by } V = \pi \int_a^bf(x)^2 \, dx \\ \textrm{Here, the x-axis is yellow, the y-axis is green, and the z-axis is red.} \\ \textrm{The original (non-rotated) curve is shown in pink.}


Last modified on July 24th, 2017.