Which Planet is Largest?

Phillip Brown, James P. Braselton

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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 languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Online Mathematics and its Applications
Volume6
StatePublished - Aug 1 2006

Disciplines

  • Education
  • Mathematics

Keywords

  • Cylindrical shells
  • Mathematics education
  • Washers

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