How Do You Integrate to Find the Hypervolume of a Hypersphere?

[Aki]

Help, I'm trying to find the hypervolume of a hypersphere and I'm stuck on this:

V^4= 2(\frac{4\pi} {3}) \int_0^r (\sqrt{r^2-x^2}) ^3 dx

I don't know how to do the integration, and I can't expand the (\sqrt{r^2-x^2}) ^3
The answer should be \frac{\pi ^2}{2}r^4

Please help, thanks

 

[quetzalcoatl9]

can you please state the original problem in it's entirety?

what are your coordinate conversions (i.e. what is x in terms of r, \theta, etc.)?

often times by converting to other coordinates (hyperspherical coordinates, in this case) the integral becomes simpler.

 

[dextercioby]

Anyway,it's useless.The hypersphere has zero volume.

Daniel.

 

[HallsofIvy]

The hypersphere does have a "hyper-volume" (or, more generally, a "measure")!

Aki: in order to integrate V^4= 2(\frac{4\pi} {3}) \int_0^r (\sqrt{r^2-x^2}) ^3 dx, did you consider using a trigonometric substitution, say x= r sin(θ)?

 

[dextercioby]

That's the BALL,the hypersphere (the S_{3} being the smallest in dimension) is a hypersurface and has zero hypervolume.

Daniel.

 

[Aki]

x=r \cos \theta , \sqrt {r^2 - x^2} = r \sin \theta , dx = -r \sin \theta d\theta

 

[Icebreaker]

The volume enclosed by a hypersphere.