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Practice problems for exam 4 in mathematics 241, focusing on integrals and centers of mass in polar, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. The problems involve rewriting integrals in polar coordinates, evaluating integrals, finding volumes using cylindrical and spherical coordinates, and calculating surface areas of cylindrical surfaces.
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1. Let R denote the region of points (x, y) ∈ R^2 satisfying x^2 + y^2 ≤ 2 and x ≥ 1.
(a) Rewrite the following integral in polar coordinates:
(x,y)∈R
F (x, y) dA =
θ=...
r=...
(b) Evaluate the integral from (a) for F (x, y) = x. Hint:
d dt (tan^ t) = 1/^ cos
(^2) t.
(c) Find the center of mass (¯x, y¯) of the region R, assuming density 1.
2. Let D denote the tetrahedron with the vertices (0, 0 , 0), (1, 0 , 0), (0, 2 , 0), (0, 0 , 3).
(a) Find
(x,y,z)∈D
x dV
(b) Find the center of mass (¯x, y,¯ ¯z) of the region D, assuming density 1.
3. Let D denote the region of points (x, y, z) ∈ R^3 satisfying x^2 + y^2 + z^2 ≤ 2 and z ≥
x^2 + y^2.
(a) Find the volume of D using cylindrical coordinates.
(b) Find the volume of D using spherical coordinates.
4. Let R denote the region of points (x, y) ∈ R^2 satisfying 2 x−^1 ≤ y ≤ 3 x−^1 and (1 − x)−^1 ≤ y ≤ 2(1 − x)−^1. Find
the integral
(x,y)∈R
y
2 dA. Hint: Use the variables u = xy and v = (1 − x)y.
5. Consider the cylindrical surface S consisting of points (x, y, z) ∈ R^3 satisfying x^2 + z^2 = 4.
(a) Let S 1 be the part of S with − 4 ≤ y ≤ 4. Find a parametrization of S 1 and use it to compute the surface area.
(b) Let S 2 be the part of S with 0 ≤ z ≤ y and y ≤ 4. Find a parametrization of S 2 and use it to compute the surface area.
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(a) bounds for θ: x = r cos θ ≥ 1 , r ≤
2 imply cos θ ≥ 1 /
2 ⇐⇒ θ ∈ [−π/ 4 , π/4]
x = r cos θ ≥ 1 ⇐⇒ r ≥ 1 / cos θ, bounds for r: 1 / cos θ ≤ r ≤
∫ (^) π/ 4
θ=−π/ 4
r=1/ cos θ
F (r cos θ, r sin θ)r dr dθ
(b) M 1 =
∫ (^) π/ 4
θ=−π/ 4
r=1/ cos θ
r cos θr dr dθ,
r=1/ cos θ r
(^2) cos θ dr = cos θ
1 3 r
3
1 / cos θ =^
2 3
2 cos θ − 13 (cos θ)−^2
3
2 sin θ − 13 tan θ
]π/ 4 θ=−π/ 4
(c) mass M =
∫ (^) π/ 4
θ=−π/ 4
r=1/ cos θ
r dr dθ =
π
2
∫ (^) π/ 4
θ=−π/ 4
r=1/ cos θ
r sin θr dr dθ = 0 since integrand is
antisymmetric with respect to θ. Hence center of mass is x¯ = M 1 /M = 23 /
π 2 −^1
, y¯ = M 2 /M = 0.
(a) M 1 =
x=
∫ (^2) − 2 x
y=
∫ (^3) − 3 x−(3/2)y
z=
x dz dy dx =
(b) mass M =
x=
∫ (^2) − 2 x y=
∫ (^3) − 3 x−(3/2)y z=0 1 dz dy dx=^1 ,^ M^2 =^
x=
∫ (^2) − 2 x y=
∫ (^3) − 3 x−(3/2)y z=0 y dz dy dx^ =^
1 2 ,^ M^3 = ∫ (^1) x=
∫ (^2) − 2 x y=
∫ (^3) − 3 x−(3/2)y z=0 z dz dy dx^ =^
3 4 , center of mass:^ x¯^ =^ M^1 /M^ =^
1 4 ,^ y¯^ =^ M^2 /M^ =^
1 2 ,^ z¯^ =^ M^3 /M^ =^
3 4
(a) V =
∫ (^2) π
θ=
r=
∫ √ 2 −r 2
z=r
r dz dr dθ =
π
(b) V =
∫ (^2) π
θ=
∫ (^) π/ 4
φ=
ρ=
ρ^2 sin φ dρ dφ dθ =
π
4. Solve xy = u and (1 − x)y = v for x, y: y = u + v, x = u/(u + v)
Find Jacobian determinant:
det
[ (^) ∂x ∂u ,^
∂y ∂u ∂x ∂v ,^
∂y ∂v
= det
v (u+v)^2
−u (u+v)^2 ,^1
u + v
∫ ∫
(x,y)∈R
y
2 dA =
u=
v=
(u + v)
u + v
dv du = 4
(a) parametrization: x = 2 cos u, y = v, z = 2 sin u, 0 ≤ u ≤ 2 π, − 4 ≤ v ≤ 4 ru × rv = (−2 sin u, 0 , 2 cos u) × (0, 1 , 0) = (−2 cos u, 0 , −2 sin u), ‖ru × rv‖ = 2
∫ (^2) π
u=
v=− 4
2 dv du = 32π
(b) parametrization: x = 2 cos u, y = v, z = 2 sin u, 0 ≤ u ≤ π, 2 sin u ≤ v ≤ 4
∫ (^) π
u=
v=2 sin u
2 dv du = 8(π − 1)