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Cylindrical Slice (Posted on 2005-11-25) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A right cylinder has height h and radius r. It is sliced by a plane that is tangent to one circular base at A and intersects the other at diameter BC. What is the volume of slice ABCD?

Note that BO=CO=DO=r, AD=h, BC is perpendicular to DO, and AD is perpendicular to DO.

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The volume of the slice is (2*h*r^2)/3.

Make a cross section parallel to the bases. Let the cross section have a center P, intersect line AD at H, arc AB at E, arc AC at F and line AO at G. Let GH=x and AH=y. AGH and AOD are similar triangles, which means AD/DO = AH/HO, which is equivalent to h/r = y/x. PEG is a right triangle with PE=r and PG=r-x, which makes EG=sqrt(r^2-(r-x)^2).

Make a second cross section containing EF and perpendictular to the bases. The cross section is parallel to AD and BC. Let IJ be the line where this cross section intersects base O. A cross section for integration is rectangle EFJI, varying with respect to x over the range 0 to r.

The integral is Integ{0,r}[EF*EI]dx, which after substitutions EF=2*EG and EI=DH=AD-AH becomes:
Integ{0,r}[2*sqrt(r^2-(r-x)^2)*(h-h*x/r)]dx

The integral can be simplified to:
Integ{0,r}[(h/r) * (2*r - 2*x) * sqrt(2*r*x - x^2)]dx

The substitution u=2*r*x - x^2, du = (2*r - 2*x)dx, x=0 -> u=0, x=r -> u=r^2 simplifies the integral to:
Integ{0,r^2}[(h/r) * sqrt(u)]du
This integral easily evaluates to (2*h*r^2)/3.

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  Subject Author Date
Puzzle AnswerK Sengupta2022-06-14 01:24:06
SolutionAn Indirect ReasoningCeeAnne2005-12-07 14:31:19
Some Thoughtsre: terminologyMindy Rodriguez2005-11-28 23:18:42
terminologyLarry2005-11-28 01:20:09
OkgoFish2005-11-27 13:56:53
re(3): Beg to differMindy Rodriguez2005-11-26 20:28:30
re(3): Beg to differpcbouhid2005-11-26 09:45:34
re(2): Beg to differgoFish2005-11-26 07:15:55
re: Beg to differpcbouhid2005-11-26 06:08:54
SolutionBeg to differgoFish2005-11-26 04:51:52
Questionre: single integralMindy Rodriguez2005-11-25 18:21:03
Good DescriptionMindy Rodriguez2005-11-25 18:19:20
Solutionsingle integralCharlie2005-11-25 11:56:00
SolutionSolutionBractals2005-11-25 11:02:15
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