Volume of Solid of Revolution with Disk Method: y=5x^2, x=1, y=0 about x-axis

In summary, the conversation was about finding the volume of a solid obtained by rotating a region bounded by given curves about a specified axis. The recommended method was to use the disk method and integrate \pi y^2 dx from 0 to 1, where y=5x^2. However, there was a mistake in the integration step, as the correct integral should be \pi x^4 dx, leading to a final answer of \pi/3.
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I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I'm stuck and not sure where to start/how to go about it and finding the integral as well...

Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region bounded by the given curves about the specified axis.
y=5x^2,x=1,y=0, about the x-axis
 
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Imagine a line drawn perpendicular to the x-axis up to the give parabola. Rotated around the x-axis, it will sweep out a disk with area [itex]\pi y^2[/itex] so, imagining a thickness of "dx", volume [itex]\pi y^2 dx[/itex]. Integrate that from 0 to 1.
 
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HallsofIvy said:
Imagine a line drawn perpendicular to the x-axis up to the give parabola. Rotated around the x-axis, it will sweep out a disk with area [itex]\pi y^2[/itex] so, imagining a thickness of "dx", volume [itex]\pi y^2 dx[/itex]. Integrate that from 0 to 1.
so when I do that.. I come up with (pi)(int 0-->1)(5*((x^3)/3)= (pi) (int. 0-->1) 5(1^3)/3= 5pi/3. But it says this answer is incorrect. Where am I going wrong?
 
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If [itex]y= 5x^2[/itex] then [itex]y^2[/itex] is NOT equal to "[itex]5x^3/3[/itex]"!

Or did you mean that [itex]5x^3/3[/itex] is the result of integrating [itex]x^2 dx[/itex]? (If so do NOT continue to write "int. 0-->1"!)

That would be the integral of [itex]\pi x^2dx[/itex] but that is NOT what you should be integrating! You should be integrating [itex]\pi y^2 dx[/itex]. And, of course, [itex]y= 5x^2[/itex].
 
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I think the disk method in terms of x should work.
 

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