Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region

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Homework Statement


Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the given curves about the specified line. Sketch the region, the solid, and a typical disk or washer. About x axis.
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y=1-x2
y=0

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I sketched a curve and a region. A typical disk and a solid? And please check the solution?
 

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Everything looks good. Good job!
 
I drew a little sketch to give you some extra intuition on solids of revolution.

See figure.
 

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That's great, thank you! I will try now to solve both of the problems. Let's see what happens.
 
Hey, where is the solid located on the function?
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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