Triple Integral Homework: Negative & Positive Answers?

[-EquinoX-]

Homework Statement

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Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

my answer to the first one is negative and the second one is positive, is this correct?

 

[yyat]

Regarding (b): What happens when you split the integral into the part where x>0 and the part where x<0, how are they related?

 

[HallsofIvy]

(a) is pretty simple isn't it? z\le 1 so z^2- zis what?

For (b) use "symmetry" as yyat suggests.

 

[-EquinoX-]

so a is negative and b is 0?

 

[yyat]

so a is negative and b is 0?

Yes.

 

[-EquinoX-]

thanks