I know it’s possible to do plots of revolution in Mathematica, but is it possible to also visualize them in WolframAlpha? For example, I have a problem that says the following:
Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the given curves about the specified line.
x = y - y^2, x=0; about the y-axis
Entering this didn’t give me the results I expected. Is this possible?
The area below the curve above x = 0 is
In[4]:= Integrate[y - y^2, {y, 0, 1}]
Out[4]= 1/6
The look of the surface of revolution is given by
RevolutionPlot3D[y - y^2, {y, 0, 1}]
The get the volume remember what one does to get the volume of the torus: If R is the radius of rotation of the circle with radius r (the actual tube of the torus), then the volume of the torus is 2 Pi R Pi r^2 = 2 Pi^2 R r^2, R >= r. Rotating your curve, obviously R = 1/2 so the volume is 2 Pi 1/2 1/6 = Pi/6. Check this with WolframAlpha
querying “Volumn of revolution” and using the given formula
In[6]:= 2 \[Pi] Integrate[y (y - y^2), {y, 0, 1}]
Out[6]= \[Pi]/6
In Wolfram Alpha one can not do that with exactly one query seemingly, but after one typed “volume of revolution” one sees the formula from In[6] above and then on might put it into WolframAlpha to get the integral there too, so one does it with two queries.
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