Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-2-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/paper-1/1/a/solution

Let . The condition gives . On the outer coordinate surface , elimination of gives . On , the surface is the plane , with . Thus the closure of the body is
It is a solid circular cap bounded below by an elliptic paraboloid of revolution and above by the unit disk in . Its vertex is , its height is , and its rim is the circle . The symmetry axis is the axis. The coordinate surface maps to that axis rather than to an additional two-dimensional boundary. These are parabolic coordinates.
Figure 1.
The solid cap bounded by an elliptic paraboloid and the disk , with a filled meridian cross-section
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