The Area of the Surface Generated by Revolving a Graph About Any Line

MaRDI QIDQ6227082arXivFDO

Authors Edray Herber Goins, Talitha M. Washington

Publication date 2 August 2011

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75)

arXiv classification

math.HOmath.MG

Abstract: We discuss a general formula for the area of the surface that is generated by a graph $[t_0,t_1]omathbb{R}^2$ sending $$ revolved around a general line $L:Ax+By=C$. As a corollary, we obtain a formula for the area of the surface formed by revolving $y=f(x)$ around the line $y=mx+k$.

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