A cross-section perpendicular to the rotation axis is a disk of radius . Disc integration therefore gives
The result is in cubic coordinate units; the full rotation is already accounted for by the disk area.
Use completing the square after taking out the leading coefficient:
Thus , and . Since a real square is nonnegative, the global minimum is , attained at .
Write . The complex modulus condition is equivalent to . Thus the locus is a circle of radius two centred at in the complex plane. Its extreme points are , , and .
Figure 1.
Circle in the complex plane with centre one and radius two
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This is a separable differential equation. Multiply by and integrate:
The initial condition gives . Hence
For a real solution the outer logarithm requires a positive argument. The maximal interval containing the initial point is therefore . At either endpoint diverges, so the real solution cannot continue through it with a finite value.
For , the first two derivatives at one are and . The Taylor expansion begins
All three displayed terms are nonzero terms of the expansion about one.
The quotient rule simplifies the derivative to
Its zeros are and , both in the domain. Substitution gives the two stationary points
The first is a local maximum and the second a local minimum, since the numerator of changes sign from positive to negative at and from negative to positive at . The denominator of the original rational function vanishes at
The numerator is nonzero at both values, so these discontinuities are poles, not removable holes.
The numerator is the derivative of the denominator. Using the chain rule in reverse gives the antiderivative
The absolute value makes this real on every interval where the denominator is nonzero. The integration constant may be chosen independently on the intervals separated by .

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