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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ia Paper 3 10A Solution by
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Choose coordinates that measure the curved boundary and the slope of a ray:On the positive interior, the inverse change of variables isThe two rays become and , while the curve becomes . The interior of therefore maps to the rectangle , . For , the lower edge describes a limiting boundary, since the original region is unbounded; the origin also has no uniquely defined ratio . For the region has zero area. These endpoint cases do not invalidate the change of variables on the positive interior.
For the three-dimensional integral, retain as the third coordinate. The transformed region isThe planar Jacobian determinant isThe integrand cancels this Jacobian determinant especially simply:HenceOne can first use the change of variables formula with and then pass to the limit. The nonnegative integrand allows this by the monotone convergence theorem, so the unbounded limiting slice at causes no omitted contribution.
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