Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2006 Paper 2 5 b Solution Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
For horizontal slices of a surface of revolution in spherical coordinates, use disk area times vertical thickness. Here the cylindrical radius is and the height is . For , . Hence a positive angular increment givesThese are horizontal disks in the lower part of the solid. A spherical angular-wedge element describes a different infinitesimal slice.