The horizontal cross-section is a triangle, so its area is half its width times its depth:
Thus the volume integral, with , is
For the substitution rule, put . The endpoint values are and , and , giving
Therefore .
The volume form in cylindrical coordinates is . Integrating around the axis and over the height gives cylindrical-shell volume . Hence the volume integral is
For unit density, this is the kinetic energy of the rotational motion.
Use cylindrical coordinates about the dumbbell axis. Their Jacobian determinant contributes the volume factor , so the handle's mass is the volume integral
Inserting the radius from part (a) yields
Centre cylindrical coordinates on the right-hand sphere, with the axial coordinate positive outwards. Using and , the retained solid satisfies
In particular, it contains more than a hemisphere; it is the small cap on the inward side that has been removed. The volume integral for its mass, including the Jacobian determinant , is
Thus each end piece has mass
Equivalently this is the volume of a spherical cap with height , multiplied by the uniform mass density.
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The retained end piece and the two radial ranges used in spherical integration
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Use spherical coordinates centred on the right-hand sphere, with polar axis pointing outwards along . The Jacobian determinant is , and the retained region is with .
For , every polar angle is allowed. For , the cut requires . Splitting the volume integral at therefore gives
Substitution of and reproduces the mass in part (c). The radial split avoids integrating over a polar angle range independent of , which would incorrectly include part of the removed spherical cap.
Here , so the absolute value equals . The volume integral, evaluated in Cartesian coordinates, is
The integrand is constant with respect to , giving
Use spherical coordinates , , . The density becomes , and the Jacobian determinant supplies . Therefore the mass is the volume integral
Using , the three integrals are , and . Hence
Direct differentiation gives
On the unit disk , polar coordinates give , and . Consequently the volume integral is
For an independent surface integral calculation, the relevant cross product is
The bottom face contributes and the top contributes . On the cylindrical side, put , , and . The flux density is . All terms except integrate to zero because they are odd functions of or , giving
Thus minus the total outward flux is , in agreement with the volume integral.
Let and . The region is the first-octant portion of the ellipsoid . In cylindrical coordinates, write and . Away from the axis, the divergence is
The field is singular on the axis, so applying the classical divergence theorem there without qualification would be invalid. Instead remove and apply it to the remaining region. On the added cylindrical boundary the unit normal is , and
Its area element is , so its flux is . The axial component of the field has zero dot product with this normal. The volume integral of the divergence is locally integrable, because its factor cancels the cylindrical measure. Thus removing a singular axis in a flux integral gives the desired improper surface integral with no extra axial term.
The divergence theorem now reduces the calculation to
The integral over is the area of a quarter unit disk. All boundary fluxes are interpreted as convergent improper integrals at the axis.
For a continuously differentiable vector field on a bounded region with piecewise smooth closed boundary , the divergence theorem states
Here is its divergence, is the volume element, is the surface area element, is the outward unit normal, and . Thus a volume integral of the divergence equals the outward flux through the boundary.
Use Einstein summation convention and write . Since , where is the Kronecker delta, the product rule gives
This proves . Now take . Integrating this identity and applying the divergence theorem to the first term gives
Part (b) changes the last volume integral of the gradient into a surface integral, yielding
Here ; the Laplacian is .
Close the hyperboloid segment with the two disks at , and let be its interior. The flux through either disk is zero because . Thus the desired surface integral is the total outward flux through the closed boundary. Since
the divergence theorem and cylindrical coordinates give
The extra factor is the volume integral measure in cylindrical coordinates; omitting it would give the wrong flux.
For an arbitrary material volume , Newton's second law equates the rate of change of linear momentum to the resultant contact force, since there is no body force:
Use the Reynolds transport theorem on the left. Expanding the product and using the continuity equation leaves
On the right, the divergence theorem applied to each row of the Cauchy stress tensor gives
Consequently the volume integral of vanishes on every material volume. Localizing as in part (i) gives the Cauchy momentum equation:
The left side is mass density times material acceleration; the right side is the divergence of the Cauchy stress tensor.
A vector field singular on an axis need not satisfy the classical divergence theorem on the original closed region. Remove a thin tube , apply the theorem to the remaining smooth region, then examine the added cylindrical boundary. If its flux tends to zero and the remaining volume integral converges, the improper boundary flux equals the improper integral of the divergence. For with , the cylindrical unit normal has zero component, so the added flux is on a bounded axial interval. The divergence is locally integrable under the cylindrical coordinates measure . Hence no finite line-source correction survives, despite the field itself being unbounded.
Volume integral 2026-10-14
A volume integral integrates a scalar or componentwise vector field over a three-dimensional region with its volume form. In spherical polar coordinates the Euclidean volume form is . The divergence theorem relates a volume integral of a divergence to a boundary flux integral.
Let a bounded planar region have positive area and centroid . If a solid has nonnegative thickness above , its volume integral gives
Thus the average of an affine function over a region is its value at the centroid. The proof is the linearity of integration. For a disk the centroid is its centre, making the formula particularly useful for a cylindrical bore cut through a solid whose width varies linearly with height.
Volume of a spherical cap Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
For a solid spherical cap of height cut from a sphere of radius ,
Centre the sphere at the origin with the cap on the side . Its cross-section at height is a circle of squared radius . A volume integral in cylindrical coordinates gives
The formula includes caps larger than a hemisphere, when , and the whole solid sphere, when . For the retained region with , set to obtain . Multiplying by uniform mass density gives its mass.