While I'd love to learn about multiple integrals, there's simply too much prerequisite knowledge that I don't have. I used the page you linked to - Paul's Online Notes to teach myself integration and it has a section on center of mass...
Haha, it seems like for every step of this project I have to learn something new...I guess that's kind of the point though :) So, I read up on integrating trig functions and trig substitutions and managed to integrate the function :D
Now, I need a function giving the location of the center of...
I read through the link you posted and it was very helpful, thanks! :)
Now the only part I don't understand is the last step where they integrate the function (step 9 to 10) I've no idea how to deal with the squared x term under a root. All I can think of is to use the substitution rule but...
Um, I've never heard of cutting a solid into thin slices to find it's volume; my knowledge of calculus is until Calculus I (I learned from: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx) and the only way to calculate volumes that I've seen is the volumes of revolution method, which...
Hi :)
I'm doing my A-Levels and have a maths investigation project for which I decided to model the working of a shishi-odoshi. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishi-odoshi)
The shape of the water in the shishi-odoshi is a cylindrical segment and I want to use integration to find the...