Multi-Variable Calculus Assignment

due Friday, April 6, 2001

Exercises

  1. Find the centroid of the first quadrant portion of the disk

     x^{2} + y^{2} <= a^{2} 
    when a is a given positive constant.
  2. Find the centroid of a solid cone having radius a and altitude h for given positive constants a and h.

    Hint: Such a solid cone may be realized, up to congruence, as the set of points (x, y, z) in R^{3} for which 0 <= z <= h and

     {r}/{a} + {z}/{h} <= 1  ,

    where r^{2} = x^{2} + y^{2}. In this realization the lateral surface of the cone is the surface of revolution obtained by rotating the line

     {x}/{a} + {z}/{h}  =  1 

    about the z-axis. A point on that surface is characterized by

     {r}/{a} + {z}/{h}  =  1  .  


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