Abstract
For some students, using the methods of washers or cylindrical shells to find the volume of a solid obtained by revolving a given region about a given line is difficult to understand because of the abstraction involved. In this article, we use on-line resources and computational tools to approximate the measure of the volume of the space occupied by each planet as it orbits the Sun.
Original language | American English |
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Journal | Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications |
Volume | 6 |
State | Published - Aug 1 2006 |
Disciplines
- Education
- Mathematics
Keywords
- Cylindrical shells
- Mathematics education
- Washers