Finding volume of solid in one quadrant - divide total volume by 4? 8? 2?
I want to find the volume of the solid produced by revolving the region enclosed by and in the first quadrant. The wording about the first quadrant confuses me but here's my work so far:
I know the volume unrestrained by quadrant is:
Where and . To find a and b, I look for the largest and smallest intersection points between the two functions:
Plugging all of these into the volume equation above:
This is the volume for the entire function. I make an assumption that since I only want one quadrant and the function is symmetric about both the x- and y-axes, I simply divide it by four.
I have no way of verifying my results. Can my assumption be made, or there's a differing method I should be using here?
If I'm now working in 3D space, would I instead divide it by eight? But if I'm revolving around , wouldn't the solid of revolution take four quadrants in 3D space, thus I should divide the total volume by 2?